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Willelmus Malmesburiensis, De gestis pontificum — 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: Magdalen College, Oxford
Shelfmark: lat. 172
Author/Title: Willelmus Malmesburiensis, De gestis pontificum
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

In the hand of William of Malmesbury.

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.

Notes in another hand (s. xii) refer to Malmesbury ("locus iste" fol. 84r, "huius ecclesie" fols. 86v, 89r, "ecclesie nostre" fol. 93r). Note by Joscelyn on fol. 94v.

 

 

Date: s. xii in.
Pressmark:

C.4

Ownership:

John Foxe (see Joscelyn's note in Cotton Otho C.i).