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G. Monemutensis, etc. — St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.


Provenance: St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Royal 13 D.v
Author/Title: G. Monemutensis, etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
  • Evidence:
  • Marginalia by Matthew Paris
  • Evidence:
  • Marginalia by Matthew Paris
Notes on evidence:

'Hic est liber sancti Albani de libraria conventus' (fol. 1r), s. xv.

'de almariolo B primus liber in primo gradu.'

'Hic est liber qui per quorundam negligentiam fuerat deperditus. Sed per industriam venerabilis nostri in Christo patris et domini domini Iohannis [Whethamstede] abbatis sexti huic monasterio erat restitutus et assignatus librarie conventus' (fol. 37v).

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:

de almariolo B primus liber in primo gradu

Ownership:

'T. C.'

John, Lord Lumley.

Old Royal pressmark 'no. 1138'.

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