A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Misc. 560

Summary Catalogue no.: 1224

Contents

Humbertus de Costa, Liber de synagoga daemonum
Colophon: (fol. 88v) post rescriptum a proprio originali per me subsignato facto et a pluribus sacrosanctis sanctionibus et scripturis collecto sumptum et transcriptum per Vitalem berardj notarium publicum loci Case dei hic signetum meum in robur et fidem maiorem apposui anno domini 1473 […]
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
2 + 88 + 4 medieval leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 200 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 32-6 lines, written space 185–200 × 125–30 mm.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

La Chaise-Dieu, Benedictine abbey: fol. 88v: ‘Reuerendissimus In christo pater et dominus R⟨eginaldus⟩ de B⟨lot⟩ Abbas istius monasterij Casedej. pro salute et remedio anime sue. hunc librum dedit suo conuentuj. Anno .1477. kalendas Augustj’; ‘Iste liber est Venerabilis conuentus Casedei’

Part of an unidentified collection whose distinctive shelfmarks are also found among the manuscripts of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642) (Quarto catalogue, pp. xvi-xvii).

William Laud, by 1633

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1625.

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2022) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 611
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885)

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Last Substantive Revision

2022-06: Description revised from Watson, Dated and Datable.