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MS. Laud Misc. 606

Summary Catalogue no.: 1480

Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiatica

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 212:

Good initials.

Binding

Binding c. 1200.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Bordesley, Worcestershire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber sancte Marie de Bord'' (s. xiv, on flyleaf facing first leaf of text). Medieval binding. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Peinton's name at end. (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, col. 430

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 63