MS. Laud Misc. 79

Summary Catalogue no.: 996

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–88 || fols. 89–90 || fols. 91–149

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic liber ut a senioribus audivimus per latrones ablatus est circa annum domini m. cccc et lxxxx. postea vero Willelmus Wargrave apud Leominstriam moraretur hunc librum a quodam generoso pro x s. ix d. redemit ...'. 'Hic est liber monasterii beate Marie Radingie' and anathema and price (10/9), on fol. 104v. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

(fol. 149r) 'Willelmus Wargrave precium libri x s. ix d.' (MLGB3)

MS. Laud Misc. 79 – Part 1

Haimo of Halberstadt, Commentary on the Apocalypse

Language(s): Latin

Treatise on the Mass

Language(s): Latin

Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

MS. Laud Misc. 79 – Part 2

Edmund Rich, Mirour de Seinte Eglise (fragment)

Language(s): French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

MS. Laud Misc. 79 – Part 3

Euangelium Nicodemi

Language(s): Latin

Prayers and meditations (some by or attributed to Anselm of Canterbury )

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniatures (marginal illustrations), partly damaged, partly defaced, good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 183)

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; English, Reading

Additional Information

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 [part 3] follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 90

Quarto Catalogue, col. 91

Quarto Catalogue, p. 545

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 42