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Beda, Historia scholastica; Gesta Britonum, etc. — Guisborough, Yorkshire. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Guisborough, Yorkshire. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Vitellius E.i
Author/Title: Beda, Historia scholastica; Gesta Britonum, etc.
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

Provenance inferred from note of s. xvii in Oxford, Bodl. Library, Lat. Misc. c.52, fol. 216r: a copy of the Vitae Abbatum in a hand of s. xvii in Lat. Misc. c.52, fols. 216r–231v is stated to be "ex MS. codice monachorum Dunelmensium qui nunc habetur in Bibliotheca D. Augustino Linselli collato cum altero monasterii S. Mariæ de Gisseburn in Bibliotheca Cottoniana". The Cotton MS. can only be Vit. E.i, now partly burnt. 

Vit. E.vii, fols. 1, 2, is a misplaced fragment of Vit. E.i. Five small fragments are kept as Cotton Misc. Burnt Fragments, Bundle I (12).

Date: s. xii