A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Lat. 34

Summary Catalogue no.: 878

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine and other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 316, pl. XXVII)

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Newstead, Nottinghamshire, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Istud psalterium pertinet ad Novum locum in Schirwode" (fol. 325v), s. xv. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Wm Le Neve. Laudian date 1637. (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.