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Digestum novum — Hereford, Herefordshire. Cathedral church of St Ethelbert.


Provenance: Hereford, Herefordshire. Cathedral church of St Ethelbert.
Location: Cathedral , Hereford
Shelfmark: P.viii.11
Author/Title: Digestum novum
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

"Hunc librum presenti librarie Herefordensi legauit Magister Oweynus lloid legum doctor dum vixit huius et Exon' ecclesiarum cathedralium canonicus perpetuo cathenandum. Orate pro eo" (fol. 2r).

Contents of the book:

(both pastedowns, fols. i–iii, 318–320) waste from a s. xiv copy of Digestum infortiatum, glossed

(fols. 1r–316r) Justinian, Digestum novum (bks 39–51), with the apparatus of Accursius

(fol. 316v) index of titles, and notes

Date: s. xiii/xiv
Ownership:

"liber est Magistri Oweyni Lloid" (at end).

Notes:

Earlier at Neath, q. v.