MS. Laud Misc. 91

Summary Catalogue no.: 983

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–105 || fols. 106–237

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic est liber sancte marie de Rading ...' (fol. 1r, flyleaf). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

MS. Laud Misc. 91 – Part 1

Baldwin of Ford, Liber de sacramento altaris

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 432, pl. XXXVI)

History

Origin: 13th century, middle ; English

MS. Laud Misc. 91 – Part 2

Commentary on Psalms 51–100 (beginning missing)

Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Penwork.

History

Origin: 13th century, middle (?) ; English

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 follow Pächt and Alexander (1973 and addenda).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 98

Quarto Catalogue, col. 99

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 41