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Augustinus, De vera religione, De doctrina christiana, Contra Felicianum — Reading, Berkshire. Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Reading, Berkshire. Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: Newberry Library, Chicago (IL, USA)
Shelfmark: 12. 1
Author/Title: Augustinus, De vera religione, De doctrina christiana, Contra Felicianum
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Liber Sancte Marie de Radingis quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit'.

Date: s. xii med
Medieval Catalogue: B71.53

Further details of medieval catalogue: B71. BENEDICTINES: THE SHORTER CATALOGUES: Reading: Catalogue, 1192
Ownership:

James Bowen (vol. 1) Part of Phillipps 241. Quaritch cat. 151 (1895) no. 3.

J. B. owned this and the next vols. and called them vol. 1–7 (cf. however card for Eton 225): they belonged late to T. Fown (information from E. F. Detterer of the Newberry Library).

W. H. Robinson cat. 50 (1934) no. 3 (i); also cat. 62 (1937).

Notes:

The MSS. at Chicago are bound uniformly and formed one number in the Phillipps collection (MS. 241) and subsequently.