MS. Laud Misc. 607

Summary Catalogue no.: 984

Avicenna, Canon medicinae (tr. Gerard of Cremona )

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 440:

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

History

Origin: 13th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Chichester, West Sussex, Cathedral church of Holy Trinity: "Auicenna de vera medicina ij do . fo | Gimine fenum I iiij." (at head of fol. 1r), s. xiv. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

William Laud (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury, 1638. "William le Neve Clarencieux" (at end). (MLGB3)

Inscription in the same hand as that in Bodley 374 (those reproduced in N.P.S. are probably the same also), but this pressmark is of a later date (? s. xv) on erasure. Two-line erasure at the 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

Quarto Catalogue, col. 431

Quarto Catalogue, p. 574

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 41