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Psalterium — 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: St John's College , Cambridge
Shelfmark: 81
Author/Title: Psalterium
Type of evidence: g: evidence from an inscription consisting of a title or, when a pressmark, a personal name in the genitive case
Notes on evidence:

On fol. ii recto, erased: 'Psalterium Abbatis Roberti de l<in>d<es>ye glosatum'. Robert of Lindsey was abbot 1214–22.

On flyleaf at the end in red: 'a.d. mlo ccccco xxxo iii Frater Rogerus Birde monachus'. Roger Bird was one of the last monks of Peterborough and wrote in several books.

Contents of the book:

Peter of Poitiers, Distinctiones super Psalterium

Date: s. xiii
Medieval Catalogue: BP4.4

Further details of medieval catalogue: BP4. BENEDICTINES: Peterborough: Books given by Abbot Robert of Lindsey (1214-22)
Ownership:

Given to St John's by Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton.