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Collectanea Glaston. ('Tabula Glastoniensis') — Glastonbury, Somerset. Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Glastonbury, Somerset. Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Lat. hist. a.2
Author/Title: Collectanea Glaston. ('Tabula Glastoniensis')
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Provenance inferred from contents: the contents are historical collectanea relating to Glastonbury, derived almost entirely from John of Glastonbury.

Date: s. xv
Notes:

A "tabula" consisting of six large sheets of parchment pasted to wooden boards which swing on hinges attached to a wall. 

Described with facs. by J. A. Bennett, Somerset Arch. Soc. Proc. 34 (1889) pp. 117–29; J. A. Robinson, Two Glastonbury Legends (Cambridge 1926), pp. 41f.