MS. Laud Misc. 725
Summary Catalogue no.: 1356
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
2 columns, c. 33 lines
Hand(s)
Protogothic minuscule; at least two scribes.
Decoration
Books begin with seven-line arabesque initials in colours.
Coloured blue, red, and green initials.
Some initials with fleuronnée decoration in a contrasting colour.
Marginal sketches added c. 1500, mostly manicules, but also including a detailed Christ bearing a cross, beside the text abneget semetipsum et tollat crucem suam (fol. 93v), cathedram honoris (fol. 155v), and hominibus superbia (fol. 187r) in pencil.
Tituli in red.
Binding
Laudian binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic est liber Sancte Marie de Radingis quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit.' (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.