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Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae, etc. — 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: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Rawlinson G. 139
Author/Title: Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae, etc.
Type of evidence: sm: evidence from the style of script or illumination and from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe
Notes on evidence:

Written by a scribe whose hand occurs in other Malmesbury MSS. 

Annotated by Wiliam of Malmesbury.

Date: s. xii in.
Ownership:

Thomas Hearne 1723.

Notes:

Manuscripts at Oxford, R. W. Hunt Memorial Exhibition (1980), pp. 26 & 28, shows fols. 73r and part of 34v.

R. M. Thomson in Scriptorium 35 (1981) 49–52 and pl. 4 (fol. 30v).