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Medica quaedam — 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: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Harley 3140
Author/Title: Medica quaedam
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
Notes on evidence:

'Hunc librum emit frater Iohannes Gryfod [?] monachus malm' pro xiii s iiijd Anno domini mccc lxxj", erased at top of fol. 272v, but legible, partly, by u. v. light. In the place name and the first m and the l are clearly legible. The l has a stroke attached to it, as for an abbreviation.

Date: s. xiii
Ownership:

"17 May 1715" from Robert Burscough and = CMA 7671.