MS. Laud Misc. 641

Summary Catalogue no.: 1412

Petrus Chrysologus, Sermons

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 324)

Binding

Early-13th-century binding.

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning (?) ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: "Liber Roberti de Brakanbiry pro tempore vite sue." Durham title on fol. 1r, and pressmark "2 a . 5 ti . T.". Letter mark "F". "Sermones ‘178’ petri Ravennatis de communi libraria monachorum dunelm." (s. xiv/xv). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Archbishop Laud 1633. (MLGB3)

Medieval white skin binding. (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. 463

Quarto Catalogue, p. 576

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 60