Isidore of Seville, Jerome, Gennadius of Marseille, Augustine, Cassiodorus — 11th century, end; English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's
MS. Bodl. 391
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Isidore of Seville, Jerome, Gennadius of Marseille, Augustine, Cassiodorus — 11th century, end; English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 391
Place of origin
English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's
Date
11th century, end
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 139 leaves
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 51, pl. VI)
Binding
Stamped leather on boards, early 16th cent. Canterbury work, attributed by Pächt and Alexander to 'P.I' (cf. MS. Arch. Selden. B. 14).
Acquisition
'Donum Jo. Bille' in sir Thomas Bodley's hand: presented not later than 1606 by J. Bill the London bookseller.
Provenance
Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Liber Sancti Augustini Cant'" (verso of flyleaf), s. xiii ex. "Liber monasterii Sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli. D.iiii. Gra. i a T. [?] C. [?]" in the same hand, s. xv ex., as in Laud Misc. 385, fol. 1r. Catalogue, CBMLC BA1.329. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
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