MS. Laud Misc. 742

Summary Catalogue no.: 1236

Leges Langobardorum.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 210:

Good initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Bury St. Edmunds

Provenance and Acquisition

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'monachorum S. Edmundi'; 'L.393'. Seen by Leland at Bury. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Sir John Prise [Syr Siôn ap Rhys] (1501/2–1555). Jesus College cat of MSS 'ex donatione Iohannis Prise equitis aurati', no. 29. Thomas Egerley 1631. (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 525

Quarto Catalogue, p. 584

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 53