MS. Laud Misc. 529

Summary Catalogue no.: 1510

Language(s): Latin

With additional passages probably from an Evesham chronicle: J. H. Denton, 'The Crisis of 1297 from the Evesham Chronicle', English Historical Review , 93 (1978), 560-579 (printing fols. 82v-89r)

With continuation (fols. 122v-184v) to 1390, incorporating:

2. (fols. 150r–184v)

'Monk of Evesham', Vita Ricardi secundi Trevor Russell Smith, 'Authorship and Further Manuscripts of the Gesta regis Ricardi secundi and Vita Ricardi secundi', Notes and Queries n.s. 67 (2020), 475-480

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 184 leaves, quarto

Binding

15th-century English binding, blind-tooled in calf, by the 'Scales' binder; on the back cover 'C' enclosing a tun (rebus for Seton (?)); N. Barker, 'A register of writs and the Scales binder', The Book Collector 21 (1972), 227-244, 356-79, no. 2 (p. 371).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Seton' (?) (binding)

William Laud, 1573–1645, by 1633.

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1637.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Nov. 2022) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885), with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 386

Quarto Catalogue, p. 569

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 65