Fine and other initials on fols. 1–116, 13th century, second quarter. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 379) Fine miniatures (marginal drawings in pen and pencil) and good initials on fols. 141–219, 13th century, beginning.

Binding

Bound in sprinkled calf, 18th century.

History

Origin: 13th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Waltham, Essex, Augustinian abbey of Holy Cross: 'lxxxxviij al. ca.' (fol. 1v, flyleaf, formerly pastedown). 'Hic liber est de armario sancte crucis de Waltham quem qui abstulerit vel furatus fuerit vel hunc titulum scienter deleverit et maliciose. excommunicatum se esse noverit' (fol. 2r, flyleaf), s. xiii. 'Innocencius de contemptu mundi. pri. dor.', followed by contents list (s. xv), below inscription on fol. 2r. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Laud 1634. (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. 372

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 373–4

Quarto Catalogue, p. 568

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 54