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Didimus, De spiritu sancto; Augustinus — Gloucester, Gloucestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.


Provenance: Gloucester, Gloucestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
Location: Cathedral , Hereford
Shelfmark: P.i.10
Author/Title: Didimus, De spiritu sancto; Augustinus
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

Nearly all the contents are found in P.i.6, which is certainly from Gloucester. "It is quite probable that this volume also came from there, since we know that Dr. Thornton got many books from Gloucester" (Catalogue).

Date: s. xii
Ownership:

Given to the Cathedral by Thomas Thornton, canon and precentor 1573–1629.

Notes:

Old binding. 

2o folio: "-tate potius".

An inscr. s. xvi/xvii on cover: "[...] this buck[?] of Aug[ustine? ...] Oxford."

Notes to art. 4 appear to be in the hand of Sir John Prise.