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MS. Laud Misc. 486

Summary Catalogue no.: 1186

The prick of conscience.

Language(s): Middle English

Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 721:

Miniature (drawing of interlace).

Initial.

Binding

Early 15th-century binding, repaired.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English

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. 350

Quarto Catalogue, p. 565

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51