MS. Laud Misc. 447

Summary Catalogue no.: 1422

Ambrose, Expositio de Psalmo CXVIII

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Binding

Contemporary binding; title on back cover.

History

Origin: 12th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Warden, Bedfordshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber Sancte Marie de Ward' (s. xii ex.) at head of first page, in line with second column. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

? No. 10 in R. Manley's list of books in Trinity B.4.15. Laud 1639. (MLGB3)

Medieval binding. Title 'Ambrosius super beati immaculati' near foot of outside of end board (s. xiii?); below this there was perhaps a label attached by 6 nails. Pin for strap at end board; old pastedowns, but flyleaves of s. xvii (?). (MLGB3)

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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 321

Quarto Catalogue, p. 562

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 61