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Vitae sanctorum — Barking, Essex. Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelburga, of Benedictine nuns.


Provenance: Barking, Essex. Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelburga, of Benedictine nuns.
Location: Central Library, Cardiff, Wales
Shelfmark: 1.381 fols. 81–146
Author/Title: Vitae sanctorum
Type of evidence: cm: evidence from contents and from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe
Notes on evidence:

Marginalia and foliation are in the same unusual hand, s. xvi in., as in Cardiff MS 3.833 (q.v.)

Date: s. xii in.–xii med.
Ownership:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571–1631), 1600, who bound it with a manuscript from Dover.

Womberell sale, Sothebys 14 April 1924, lot 136