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Bernardus — Newstead, Nottinghamshire. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Newstead, Nottinghamshire. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Laud Misc. 285
Author/Title: Bernardus
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Bodleian, Laud Misc. 428 and Laud Misc. 285 may have belonged to Newstead, Lincs., or more probably, Newstead, Notts., since it came to Laud from William le Neve, like Laud Lat. 34.

Initial P very like that in Laud Misc. 428. Both MSS. in 2 cols., of 29 leaves.

 
Date: s. xii/xiii
Ownership:

Le Neve.

Laudian date 1639 on a leaf supplied, s. xvii (in Laud Misc. 428 it is on the same leaf as the Newstead inscr.).