MS. Laud Lat. 87

Summary Catalogue no.: 1144

Bible

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

One fine historiated initial.

Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1316, pl. CXIX)

History

Origin: 13th century, second quarter ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

London, Carmelite convent: "Memoriale reverendi doctoris in theologia fratris Iohannis de Bacona, quod reliquit conuentui fratrum ordinis beate Marie de monte Carmeli, Londonie, anno Domini, 1248 [sic]" (fol. 1r). "Liber communitatis fratrum ordinis beate marie de monte Carmeli Lond' ex perquisito reuerendi doctoris in theologia eiusdem ordinis fratris Iohannis de bacona siue bakonesthorp" (fol. 459v). "A. 1 m " (fol. 1v). Inscriptions of ? s. xiv. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

"Joseph Maynard" (fols. 214r, 332r). Laud, 1635. (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 41

Quarto Catalogue, p. 540 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 49