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Gratianus, Decretum — 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: Stowe 378
Author/Title: Gratianus, Decretum
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription and pressmark
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription and pressmark
Notes on evidence:

"Decreta de Dono domini Iohannis Bereford [Herefeld' added supra] vic' de Plumstede". The Church of Plumstead was appropriated to St Augustine's.

"De librar' sancti Augustini Cant' Distinct' .xv."

"De gradu .IIII. [the last digit erased]" (top of flyleaf, fol. 1r), s. xiv.

Date: s. xiii
Pressmark:

D.xv G.iii (iiii)

Medieval Catalogue: BA1.1619

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

"Roger Twysden 1638" (fol. 2r). Bought by him from Laurence Sadler, bookseller, 1629, and rebound: fol. 1r).

Ashburnham (cf. Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report, 8. 3. 24 (no. 10)).