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Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; etc. — Reading, Berkshire. Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Reading, Berkshire. Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Royal 8 C.ix
Author/Title: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading' quem qui celauerit vel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit. amen.'

Date: s. xiii
Ownership:

John Theyer.

Notes:

'Orate pro Rpdbfrtp [Rodberto]' – apparently the scribe of this greater part of the vol. (fol. 166v).

'Quis sit dux noster si temptetis fore certi

Sex mihi sunt fratres trinove facta Roberti' (fol. 1v).