MS. Laud Misc. 489

Summary Catalogue no.: 1084

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: "liber sancti cuthberti de dunelm'." (s. xv), on fol. 3v, and letter mark ".ff." on fol. 5r. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Chain-mark shows at foot of first leaves. Two medieval foliations, one in arabic, one in roman, agreeing with one another. (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, cols. 351–2

Quarto Catalogue, p. 565

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 46