Breuis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comite Normannorum — 12th century, first half; English
MS. e Mus. 93
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Breuis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comite Normannorum — 12th century, first half; English
Shelfmark
MS. e Mus. 93
Place of origin
English
Date
12th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Provenance
Battle, Sussex, Benedictine abbey of St Martin: catalogue, CBMLC B9.9 (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
Brecon, Brecknockshire, Benedictine priory of St John the Evangelist: Hereford P.v.1 and Bodl. e Mus. 93 formed one volume, earlier probably at Battle (above). Sir John Prise found it 'in Brechonia Demetarum . . . urbe . . . ex coenobio Monachorum, quod ibidem erat Benedictini, quem vocant, ordine desumptum' (J. Prise, Historiae Brytanniae Defensio, 1573, p. 114). (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
Sir John Prise (d. 1555). e Mus. 93 belonged to Silas Taylor in 1658, for whose dealings with Hereford library see Wood, Athenae, 3. 1175. It formed part of the Hereford MS in s. xvi (see Cambridge, CCC MS 101, pp. 132-133). (MLGB3)
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