MS. Laud Misc. 550
Summary Catalogue no.: 1375
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
1–15(8); 1 additional folio appended to quire 15
Layout
160–162 × 100 mm.
Hand(s)
One hand, littera hybrida, in dark brown ink.
Decoration
Initial in blue with red flourishing of two lines in height on fol. 1r.
Initials in blue or red of two lines in height on fol. 1r and thereafter accompanying rubrication.
Top line flourishing throughout.
Rubrication throughout, marking new sections, with contemporary marginal numbering.
Catchworeds at the end of every quire, in the same ink and hand as the text.
Binding
16th-century binding with centrepiece in blind; initials S.W. on both covers.
Section of leather from earlier (contemporary?) binding pasted on inside rear board, displaying later owner's mark in black ink.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Richard St George, 1605
William Laud, 1636.
Part of his second donation to the Bodleian, 1636.
Record Sources
2025-06-05: Additional data collected by Miriam Waters and Cayden Ong as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 5th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 9th June 2025.
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-06-05: Additional data collected by Miriam Waters and Cayden Ong as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 5th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 9th June 2025.