MS. Laud Misc. 491

Summary Catalogue no.: 1093

Bede, Vita S. Cuthberti

Language(s): Latin

Historia translationis S. Cuthberti

Language(s): Latin

Life of St. Cuthbert

Language(s): Latin

Life of St. Oswald

Language(s): Latin

Life of St. Aidan

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 175, pl. XVIII:

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; English, Durham

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert (?) : Certainly written at Durham and belonged after the Reformation to Leonard Pilkington (presb. of Durham); but has no Durham marks. (MLGB3: evidence from the style of script or illumination).

Mynors no. 125. (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. 352

Quarto Catalogue, col. 353

Quarto Catalogue, p. 565

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 47