MS. Laud Misc. 548

Summary Catalogue no.: 1377

William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum

Language(s): Latin

William of Malmesbury, Historia nouella

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 282:

Fine fleuronnée.

Good and other initials.

Binding

19th-century calf binding.

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Newark, Surrey, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr: "Hic liber est ecclesie sancte [marie et beati Thome martiris de nouo loco quem qui furto] abstulerit/ uel sine consciencia eiusdem ecclesie conuentus quocumque modo alienauerit [sit anathema] maranatha amen" at foot of fol. 3r. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Archbp. Laud 1633. "Liber Ioannis Twyne de Greys Inne/ ex dono Ioannis Twyne patris sui [...]", at top of fol. 3r, erased but legible by u. v. light. (MLGB3)

Inscr. erased, but partly legible by u. v. light, is probably in same hand as that in Auct. D.inf.2.10. (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. 396

Quarto Catalogue, p. 570

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59