MS. Laud Misc. 450

Summary Catalogue no.: 1319

Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 171:

Initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Ford, Devon, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: Two erased inscriptions at end: 1) "Hic est liber ecclesie sancte marie de [...]a" (s. xii 2 ). 2) "Hic est liber sancte m. de fordo quod Knygh" (s. xiv). The 2nd inscr. is legible by u. v. light. In the 1st f or s [?] is the first letter of the place name which is of five letters. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Joseph Maynard, fellow of Exeter. Laud 1635. (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 322

Quarto Catalogue, col. 323

Quarto Catalogue, p. 562

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 56