Augustine, Cassiodorus, Isidore, Gennadius — 12th century, second quarter; English, Bury St. Edmunds
MS. e Mus. 31
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Augustine, Cassiodorus, Isidore, Gennadius — 12th century, second quarter; English, Bury St. Edmunds
Shelfmark
MS. e Mus. 31
Place of origin
English, Bury St. Edmunds
Date
12th century, second quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
DecorationGood initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 107)
Binding
White leather on boards, with tags at top and bottom; bosses and most of the clasp gone, 13th-cent. (?) English work.
Provenance
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Liber sancti Ӕdmundi'; 'A.31'. Medieval, probably contemporary binding. The old outer jacket appears now to be doing duty as the cover of MS Laud Misc. 233. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
John Parry, 1653–4. (MLGB3)
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