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Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; etc. — St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.


Provenance: St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Royal 4 D.vii
Author/Title: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; etc.
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
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  • Pressmark, title, etc.
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Notes on evidence:

'Titulus istius libri in dorso Scolastica hystoria W. abbatis . . . B. 8 gra.' (Wm. de Trumpington, 1214–35).

Contains marginalia in the hand of Matthew Paris (see R. Vaughan, 'The handwriting of Matthew Paris', Transactions of the Cambridge Bib. Soc. 1 (1953) 390–92).

Date: s. xiii in.
Pressmark:

B 8.gra.

Ownership:

Old Royal pressmark 'no. 1335'.