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Augustinus, De doctrina christiana; Vite sanctorum (Edburga, Frideswide, Wenefreda, etc.) — Pershore, Worcestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Edburga (originally of St Mary the Virgin, St Peter, and St Paul).


Provenance: Pershore, Worcestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Edburga (originally of St Mary the Virgin, St Peter, and St Paul).
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Laud Misc. 114
Author/Title: Augustinus, De doctrina christiana; Vite sanctorum (Edburga, Frideswide, Wenefreda, etc.)
Type of evidence: sc: evidence from the style of script or illumination and from contents
Notes on evidence:

Table of contents in same hand as St John's Coll. 96.

'pershor' scribbled in a late medieval hand in the upper margin of fol. 23*r (the last leaf of the De doctrina christiana).

The contents include the account of the translation of Edburga's relics to Pershore and her miracles there.

Sir John Prise (no. 40 in the list of his books in the Jesus register). Later at Jesus where Twine saw it.

Date: s. xii