Relatio de Willelmo conquestore — Brecon, Brecknockshire. Benedictine priory of St John the Evangelist.
Provenance: | Brecon, Brecknockshire. Benedictine priory of St John the Evangelist. |
Location: | Bodleian Library , Oxford |
Shelfmark: | e Mus. 93 |
Author/Title: | Relatio de Willelmo conquestore |
Type of evidence: | inferred evidence |
Notes on evidence: | Hereford P.v.1 and Bodl. e Mus. 93 formed one volume, earlier probably at BATTLE, q.v. Sir John Prise found it 'in Brechonia Demetarum . . . urbe . . . ex coenobio Monachorum, quod ibidem erat Benedictini, quem vocant, ordine desumptum' (J. Prise, Historiae Brytanniae Defensio, 1573, p. 114). |
Date: | s. xii |
Ownership: | Sir John Prise (d. 1555). e Mus. 93 belonged to Silas Taylor in 1658, for whose dealings with Hereford library see Wood, Athenae, 3. 1175. It formed part of the Hereford MS in s. xvi (see Cambridge, CCC MS 101, pp. 132–133). |
Notes: | Hereford P.v.1 and Bodl. e Mus. 93 formed one volume, earlier probably at BATTLE, q.v. Sir John Prise found it 'in Brechonia Demetarum . . . urbe . . . ex coenobio Monachorum, quod ibidem erat Benedictini, quem vocant, ordine desumptum' (J. Prise, Historiae Brytanniae Defensio, 1573, p. 114). |