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MS. Laud Misc. 619

Summary Catalogue no.: 759

Ranulph Higden, Polichronicon (to 1348)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Fountains, Yorkshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "liber sancte Marie de ffontibus" (s. xv ex.), at head of fol. 1r. No pressmark. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

s. xv–xvi: Thomas Pawling. John Hayson. John Stanhope. Laud "1633". (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 446

Quarto Catalogue, p. 574

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 33