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Gildas — 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: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Vitellius A.vi
Author/Title: Gildas
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Contained added hymns for Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian and for St Augustine.

"ad bibliothecam Augustinensem Cantuariæ olim pertinuit", according to Joscelyn, Gildas, ed. 1558, praef.

Now 37 leaves, mostly badly burnt.

 

Date: s. x
Medieval Catalogue: ?BA1.887

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

Camden (teste Smith).