MS. Laud Misc. 497

Summary Catalogue no.: 1584

Physical Description

Composite: two parts

Binding

Mid-15th-century calf binding.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Glastonbury, Somerset, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin (?) : Medieval binding: the binding leaves at the end are from early 14th-cent. farm accounts of Glastonbury abbey in the time of abbot G (= Geoffrey de Fromont, d. 1322) and the cellarer Nicholas Wasoun. (MLGB3: evidence from binding or elements of a binding typical of a particular library, or pastedowns bearing evidence of provenance).

MS. Laud Misc. 497 – Part 1

John Waleys, Ordinarium

Language(s): Latin

William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis

Language(s): Latin

Regimen animarum (fragment)

Language(s): Latin

Religious texts

Language(s): Latin

Patristic extracts

Language(s): Latin

Exempla

Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Richard Rolle, Emendatio uitae

Language(s): Latin

William Flete, De remediis contra temptaciones

Language(s): Latin

Alexander Nequam, De nominibus utensilium

Language(s): Latin

10.

Theological treatises and extracts.

Language(s): Latin

11.

Narratives about Saints and miracles.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Laud Misc. 497 – Part 2

Robert Grosseteste, Templum dei

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Additional Information

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. 357–8

Quarto Catalogue, p. 566

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 68