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MS. Laud Misc. 653

Summary Catalogue no.: 636

Jean de Wavrin, Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre,

vol. ii (fragment).

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

School of Loyset Liedet. Pächt and Alexander i. 346, pl. XXVII:

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials.

Binding

Vellum over boards.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Flemish

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 (1966).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 475–6

Quarto Catalogue, p. 577

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 28