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

MS. Laud Misc. 576

Summary Catalogue no.: 993

Contents

1.
Petrus Riga, Aurora (edition of Gilles de Paris)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 410)

Binding

Contemporary binding; title up spine.

History

Origin: 13th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: "De claustro cant'" (fol. 7r). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

John Fox. (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.