MS. Laud Misc. 579

Summary Catalogue no.: 1496

1. (fol. 1)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae

Rubric: Incipiunt gesta Regum Britonum qualiter composita sunt

Colophon: Finis hujus opusculi etc. quod R. Brugge

Language(s): Latin

2. (p. 136)

Martinus Polonus, Chronicon summorum pontificum et imperatorum Romanorum (with continuation to 1284)

Rubric: Incipit Cronica fratris Martini Penitenciarii Domini Pape et Capellani Rubrica etc.

Explicit: prestavit stipendia et animavit ad suscepta negotia sollicite prosequenda

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 130 leaves, folio

Hand(s)

Semi-humanistic script. "It seems likely that 'Brugge' was an early owner rather than the scribe" as the colophon is apparently in a different scrink and ink from the text (Duke Humfrey and English Humanism (Oxford, 1970), no. 38).

Decoration

By the same hand as New College, Oxford, MS. 228 (dated 1452) and St John's College, Cambridge, MS. 98 (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1090, pl. CII)

Fine border.

Fine historiated initial.

Fine initials.

Binding

15th-century English binding, blind-tooled in calf, by the 'Scales' binder, 'L' on the back cover; N. Barker, 'A register of writs and the Scales binder', The Book Collector 21 (1972), 227-244, 356-79, no. 3 (p. 371).

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Robert Brugge’, fol. 134 and last pastedown ('Garce Lolye [or Garde Iolye] .q. R. Brugge'), pastedown with arms on a cross, a leopard's face , the arms of Bridges or Bruges of Gloucestershire (argent on a cross sable a leopard's face or) (Barker, p. 372, and Duke Humfrey, no. 38).

William Laud, 1573–1645, by 1633.

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1637.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Nov. 2022) from the following sources, with reference to published literature as cited:

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885)

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 1090

Quarto Catalogue, col. 414

Quarto Catalogue, p. 572

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 64

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-11: Revised to incorporate all information from printed catalogues.

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