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

MS. Laud Misc. 698

Summary Catalogue no.: 1583

Contents

Chronicle of the Church of Ely, 1107–69
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Binding

Limp vellum binding.

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Ely, Cambridgeshire, Benedictine abbey and (1109) cathedral priory of St Peter and St Etheldreda: (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Richard St. George, Norroy. (MLGB3)

At the end is a note of the payment of a debt to Roger Westminster, prior 1478–1499. (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.