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

MS. Laud Misc. 620

Summary Catalogue no.: 1395

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ii + 102 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 345 × 233 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 50 lines, column space 220 × 60 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Johannes Leyd, fol. 102.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 954, pl. LXXX:

Good diagrams by Jacomo Polito, cartolaio, 1461, fol. 102.

Binding

18th-century sprinkled calf rebind.

History

Origin: 1461 ; Italian

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 (1970).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 618

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.