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

MS. Laud Misc. 598

Summary Catalogue no.: 1475

Contents

2.
Poems,

including Lydgate

Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 783:

Good initials.

Some sketches added 15th century, second half, fol. 48.

Binding

Limp vellum binding.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; 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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.