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Polychronicon/ Chronica Castrensis — Canterbury, Kent. Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul).


Provenance: Canterbury, Kent. Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul).
Location: University Library , Cambridge
Shelfmark: Ii.2.24
Author/Title: Polychronicon/ Chronica Castrensis
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
Notes on evidence:

Pressmarks gone.

Initial representing St Katharine and T. Arnold as monk. Scroll: "Me thomam mina precor arnoldum katherina".

Date: s. xiv/xv
Medieval Catalogue: BA1.934

Further details of medieval catalogue: BA1. BENEDICTINES: Canterbury-St Augustine's: Catalogue, 15th cent.
Ownership:

Present by Matthew Parker (1504–1575), archbishop of Canterbury.