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MS. Laud Lat. 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 925

Song of Songs, with gloss

Language(s): Latin

Lamentations, with gloss

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Binding

Late 12th century.

History

Origin: 12th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Barking, Essex, Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelburga, of Benedictine nuns: 'Hic est liber sacratissime Dei genitricis Marie et beate Aethelburge virginis Berkingensis ecclesie, quem qui abstulerit aut super eo fraudem fecerit anathematis mucrone feriatur' (fol. 1r, s. xiii, text begins fol. 1v). 'B. iii' (inside cover, s. xiii). Along spine of contemporary vellum binding: 'b: cantica canticorum glos' : 3' (title s. xiii; pressmark added later). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Guil. Charci' (fol. 1r) James Ussher (1581–1656), archbishop of Armagh ('Jacobi [Ussher, archiep.] Armachani' (inside cover)) William Laud (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury, 1633 (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 13

Quarto Catalogue, p. 538 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 39