MS. Laud Misc. 624

Summary Catalogue no.: 1416

William de Pagula, Summa summarum (written c. 1320–1323)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 634:

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Rochester, Kent, Cathedral priory of St Andrew: 'Non spe nummorum dedit agnes vna sororum Librum summarum. quo sit possessor earum Filius in vita symon confrater. et ita Te precor o criste quod concordet chorus .i. Roffe iste' (fol. 2r). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Hugh Cressy [?]'. Laudian date 1639. (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. 451

Quarto Catalogue, p. 575

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 61