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MS. Laud Misc. 657

Summary Catalogue no.: 1092

Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis

Language(s): Latin

Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Binding

Contemporary binding.

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Tynemouth, Northumberland, Benedictine priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Oswin; cell of St Albans: 'Hunc librum dedit dompnus Iohannes de Westwyk' deo et beate Marie et sancto oswyno regi et martiri de Tynemuth et monachis ibidem deo servientibus. Anima dicti Iohannis et omnium fidelium anime per dei misericordiam requiescant in pace. Amen.' (fol. 1v), inscription seems to be in the hand of the text. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Horsley. (MLGB3)

Medieval binding, rebacked. (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, cols. 477–8

Quarto Catalogue, col. 479

Quarto Catalogue, p. 577

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 46