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MS. Laud Misc. 494

Summary Catalogue no.: 1188

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 816:

Good historiated initial.

Binding

Reversed calf binding.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, North-east (?)

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 (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 355–6
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.