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Giraldus Cambrensis — Hereford, Herefordshire. Cathedral of St Ethelbert, Vicars Choral.


Provenance: Hereford, Herefordshire. Cathedral of St Ethelbert, Vicars Choral.
Location: National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Shelfmark: 700
Author/Title: Giraldus Cambrensis
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

"Orate pro anima Walteri Mybbe qui dedit istum librum vicariis Ecclesie Cathedralis Herford' Anno domini Mo CCCCo XXXVIIIo per dominum J. Dyny."

Date: s. xiii in.
Ownership:

Thomas Phillipps "Middlehill. 1831": he had it from the Bristol bookseller, Strong. Phillipps MS. 6914.

(fol. 1r, s. xviii) "John N[...] Gloucester"; surname scratched out.

Sotheby July 1, 1946 (Phillipps sale), lot 5.

Notes:

Early 19th-cent. binding.

2 cols., 36 lines.

Folios: i+99+i.