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Defensor, etc. — 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: 3.833
Author/Title: Defensor, etc.
Type of evidence: em: evidence from an ex-libris inscription and from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe
Notes on evidence:

'Liber sancte adelburge de [     ] qui ipsum alienauerit, anathema sit Amen' (fol. 1r at top, but the first four words are not quite certainly legible).

Marginalia and foliation, s. xvi in., as in Cardiff MS 1.381 (q.v.)

Date: s. xiii ex.
Ownership:

Nathaniel C. S. Poyntz (sale 30 June 1921, lot 555)