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MS. Laud Misc. 537

Summary Catalogue no.: 1282

Échelle de Mahomet (French tr. of Scala Mahometi or Kitab al-Mi'rag)

Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 561, pl. LVI:

Fine historiated border.

Fine historiated initial.

Good penwork borders.

Initials.

Binding

Early 15th-century binding, much repaired.

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; English

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, cols. 389–90

Quarto Catalogue, p. 569

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 55