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Isidorus, De summo bono; Alcuin, De sapientia; etc. — Haughmond, Shropshire. Augustinian abbey of St John the Evangelist.


Provenance: Haughmond, Shropshire. Augustinian abbey of St John the Evangelist.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Additional 37785
Author/Title: Isidorus, De summo bono; Alcuin, De sapientia; etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
Notes on evidence:

"Liber iste est ecclesie Sancti Iohannis apostoli et Evangeliste de Hagemon." (fol. 1r), over an erasure.

Date: s. xii/xiii (c. 1200)
Ownership:

"Thomas Scott" (fol. 84r, s. xvi). "ex dono Eduardi Mileham patris amantissimi Novemb. 24, 1655" (fol. 84r).

Archbp. Tenison. Bequeathed by him to St Martin's Westminster (no. 49, changed to 29). Sold 1861 lot 48.

Quaritch cat. 138 (1893), no. 6; cat. 166 (1897), no. 3.

Amherst of Hackney 34. Sold 24 March 1909 (Sotheby, lot 486).

Bateman.

Notes:

Medieval binding.