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MS. Laud Misc. 706

Summary Catalogue no.: 809

Contents

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Sermons (in part by John Paunteley)
Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Binding

Contemporary binding.

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Peter: "Iste liber constat Iohanni Paunteley". Original binding. Flyleaves from accounts mentioning manors belonging to Gloucester (cf. Dugdale, Mon., 1. 545ff.). One of the sermons, fol. 13r, is "Sermo Johannis Paunteley in exequiis Walteri Frouceter abbatis Glouc', a. d. 1412, May 3." Paunteley was a monk at Gloucester, ordained deacon 8. 6. 1392 (Reg. Trefnant, pp. 201, 203). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership and from the binding).

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, col. 504
Quarto Catalogue, col. 505
Quarto Catalogue, p. 580
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 35

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.