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Turgotus, Vita s. Margarete, etc. — Dunfermline, Fife. Benedictine abbey of the Holy Trinity.


Provenance: Dunfermline, Fife. Benedictine abbey of the Holy Trinity.
Location: Palacio Nacional, Madrid, Spain
Shelfmark: II.2097
Author/Title: Turgotus, Vita s. Margarete, etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

"Sancte margarite de dunfermlyn liber iste" (fol. 1r).

Date: s. xiv in.
Ownership:

(Former number 2 N. 4).

Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, s. xvii1.

Cf. Acta SS. Aug. 1. 247.

 

Notes:

John Durkan, letter 10. 2. 1969, gives contents as:

Margaret; Jocelin of Furness, Waldef; [Thomas Hibernicus,] De tribus punctis christiane religionis; Thomas Hibernicus, "De confessione"; De gaudiis paradisi; Augustine, De miseria hominis; Speculum claustralium; De contemptu mundi; Bernard (as in Opera 5. 421 = Walter Map, 147); Disputacio inter corpus et animam (Map, 95); Excerpts from Hugh of St. Victor and other works; Treatise on prayer, "Quidam clericus in nimia tristitia, dententus [recte: detentus] et conquerens ...".

Cf. J. Durkan, "Three Manuscripts with Fife associations", Innes Review 20 (1969) 47–49 & pl. xvii (which shows fol. 1r).