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MS. Laud Misc. 419

Summary Catalogue no.: 1501

Contents

Breviary (Choir Breviary)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniatures, borders, historiated and other initials. Style related to the school of Rouen. (Pächt and Alexander i. 846, pl. LXI)

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 306
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 64

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.