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MS. Laud Misc. 592

Summary Catalogue no.: 1388

Contents

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (excerpts)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 192)

Binding

19th-century half-morocco binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; English

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, col. 421
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 60

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.