A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Misc. 419

Summary Catalogue no.: 1501

Contents

Breviary (Choir Breviary)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
ii + 464 + ii leaves .
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 140 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 30 lines

Decoration

Style related to the school of Rouen.Pächt and Alexander i. 846, pl. LXI:

Fine miniatures. A full-page miniature (fol. 9) with Charles de Hangest, bishop of Noyon, presenting his successor and nephew, Jean de Hangest, to the holy Trinity; the arms of the family are at the foot of the page.

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

Binding

19th-century rebind.

History

Origin: after 1525 ; French

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 257

Last Substantive Revision

2025-07: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.