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Gesta etc. Abbatis Ioannis Whethamstede — St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.


Provenance: St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Otho B.iv
Author/Title: Gesta etc. Abbatis Ioannis Whethamstede
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Fragments of Whethamstede's booklists remain on fols. 13v–16r.

Formerly 120 folios, now all badly burnt.

Date: s. xv
Medieval Catalogue: B89.63, B89.64

Further details of medieval catalogue: B89. BENEDICTINES: THE SHORTER CATALOGUES: St Albans: Fragment of list of Whethamstede's books, after 1452
Ownership:

'Liber olim erat Henrici, Comitis Strafford, filii Edwardi, Ducis Buckinghamiae, 1560' (Smith).