MS. Laud Misc. 428

Summary Catalogue no.: 982

Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job,

books xxiii-xxvii

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 315)

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Newstead, Nottinghamshire, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin (?); MSS. Laud Misc. 428 and Laud Misc. 285 may have belonged to Newstead, Lincs., or more probably, Newstead, Notts., since it came to Laud from William le Neve, like MS. Laud Lat. 34 (q.v.). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

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 (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 312

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 41