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MS. Laud Misc. 558

Summary Catalogue no.: 1577

Quaestiones on Hippocrates, Aphorismata

Language(s): Latin

Johannes de Corpo, Quaestiones on Hippocrates, Prognostica

Language(s): Latin

P. de Capite-Stagno, Quaestiones on Hippocrates, Regimen auctorum morborum

Language(s): Latin

Quaestiones de pulsibus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 1 +318 + i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 195 mm.

Layout

1 col., 41 lines, 187 × 115 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Herman Zurke of Greifswald .

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1059:

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

Binding

Binding by Gilbert Kymer's binder at Salisbury.

History

Origin: 1459–1460 ; English, Salisbury (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, University: Marks of chaining and labelling as on Merton Coll. 268, which was bound by the same binder as Laud Misc. 558, no doubt of Salisbury. (MLGB3: evidence from binding or elements of a binding typical of a particular library, or pastedowns bearing evidence of provenance).

Written for Gilbert Kymer by Hermann de Gripesuualdis. Edoardus Brerwood (fol. 318v); cf. Bodley 362. (MLGB3)

Cf. BLR 5 (1955) 176. (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, cols. 401–2

Quarto Catalogue, p. 571

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 68