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Pontificale ('Liber pontificalis') — Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Cathedral church of St Mungo (or Kentigern).


Provenance: Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Cathedral church of St Mungo (or Kentigern).
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Tiberius B.viii 1–34, 81–197
Author/Title: Pontificale ('Liber pontificalis')
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
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  • 'Glasguensi' added next to 'sancte ille ecclesie'
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Notes on evidence:

Written for the diocese of Canterbury (see fol. 8r); later at Glasgow (see fol. 107r, where 'Glasquensi' is written in the margin against the phrase 'profiteor sancte ill. ecclesie'). Adapted for use at Glasgow; J. Brückmann in Traditio 29 (1973), 435.

Probably one of the three pontificals reported for the cathedral in the inventory of 1433.

Date: s. xii
Medieval Catalogue: S12.1

Further details of medieval catalogue: S12. SCOTLAND: Glasgow cathedral: Inventory, 24 March 1433
Ownership:

Thomas Potter 1566.

Cotton 1604.

Notes:

Facs. at Glasgow, UL.