MS. Laud Lat. 51

Summary Catalogue no.: 635

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Semi-humanistic script. Includes the passages discovered at St. Gall by Poggio in 1416. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 477, pl. XLVI)

Decoration

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

Fine penwork borders and initials. Semi-humanistic script. Includes the passages discovered at St. Gall by Poggio in 1416. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 477, pl. XLVI)

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; Italian, Venice (?)

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 (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 26

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 28