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MS. Laud Misc. 572

Summary Catalogue no.: 1570

'Matthew of Westminster', Flores historiarum,

to 1296

Language(s): Latin

John Bever, Commendatio lamentabilis in transitu magni Edwardi regis

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 528, pl. XLIX:

Good miniatures.

Binding

Medieval binding and repairs.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Winchester, Hampshire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun: (fol. 1r), at foot, erased but partly legible by u. v. light: "Hunc librum legauit Ad [...]/ Swithuni Wynton' quem qui alienauerit uel [...]/ [...] anatema sit et maledictus [...]". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

(fol. 1r) legible by u. v. light: "Liber domini Thome Dakombe rectoris de col[...] anno domini 1543 prec' [...]". Richard St. George, Norroy. Laud 1636. (MLGB3)

Late medieval binding. (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. 409–10

Quarto Catalogue, p. 571

Quarto Catalogue, p. 572

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 67