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Berengaudus — Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew.


Provenance: Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew.
Location: Corpus Christi College , Cambridge
Shelfmark: 134
Author/Title: Berengaudus
Type of evidence: bs: evidence from binding or pastedowns and from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Flyleaves from a 15th-cent. account roll with references to Alwalton manor and Warmington rectory, properties of Peterborough abbey, and to 'Burghbrygg' and 'Burghwerk'.

The main hand has a general resemblance to hands in BL MSS Cotton Tiberius C.i and Herley 3667. Numerous corrections in a hand which may be slightly less formal work of the same scribe but is certainly the work of the same scribe as Society of Antiquaries 60 (the Black Book of the abbey), fols. 6–71; cf. also Bodl. MS Laud Misc. 636, fols. 88v onwards. (Opinion of T. A. M. Bishop.)

All this being the case, very probably the copy of Berengaudus visible in the list of refectory reading at the abbey.

Contents of the book:

Berengaudus, Expositio super septem uisiones libri Apocalypsis

Link to the Book Site
Date: s. xii
Medieval Catalogue: BP20.6

Further details of medieval catalogue: BP20. BENEDICTINES: Peterborough: List of books read in the refectory, 13th cent.