MS. Laud Misc. 603

Summary Catalogue no.: 1495

Martinus Polonus, Chronicon summorum pontificum et imperatorum Romanorum

Language(s): Latin

John Waleys, Floriloquium

Language(s): Latin

John Waleys, Breuiloquium de sapientia

Language(s): Latin

John Waleys, Breuiloquium de uirtutibus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 632:

Good penwork initials. Line numbering by fives between the columns.

Binding

19th-century calf rebind.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: "Liber Roberti Brakenbery" (s. xv?). Letter mark "I". Durham titles on fols. 2v and 3r, with pressmarks "1 a . 7 mi . ff." (fol. 3r) and "2 a . 7 i . ff." (fol. 2v). "Cronica martini cum aliis de communi libraria monachorum dunelm." erased, but sufficient traces remain; s. xiv ex. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Archbishop Laud 1633. (MLGB3)

Line numbering by fives. (fols. 69v–97r) for reference purposes. (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. 429–30

Quarto Catalogue, p. 573

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