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W. Malmesburiensis, Defloratio Gregorii — Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Aldhelm.


Provenance: Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Aldhelm.
Location: University Library , Cambridge
Shelfmark: Ii.3.20
Author/Title: W. Malmesburiensis, Defloratio Gregorii
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Perhaps written at Malmesbury for another house.

Date: s. xii in.
Notes:

See R. M. Thomson in Scriptorium 35 (1981) 52–53, and pl. 5 of fol. 68v.

Cambridge, U.L., Ii.3.20, Cambridge, CCC, 330, Trinity Coll. 1301, Lambeth Palace 224, Bodleian, Arch. Seld. B.16, Auct. F.3.14, Lincoln Coll., lat. 100, Magdalen Coll., lat. 172, Merton Coll. 181, fol. 230 (binding leaf); Oriel Coll. 42 contain writing in a hand identified as that of William of Malmesbury; for nos. 3–7 cf. N.R. Ker in E.H.R. 59 (1944), pp. 371–76.