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Aulus Gellius and Valerius Maximus, extracts; Seneca, De beneficiis; Cicero, De officiis; etc. — Salisbury, Wiltshire. Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078.


Provenance: Salisbury, Wiltshire. Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078.
Location: Trinity College , Cambridge
Shelfmark: R. 16. 34
Author/Title: Aulus Gellius and Valerius Maximus, extracts; Seneca, De beneficiis; Cicero, De officiis; etc.
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Script suggests Salisbury. Leland (Itineray 1. 263) saw at Salisbury 'Versus plus minus 300 Michaelis Cornubiensis contra magistrum Henricum Abricensem coram domino electo Winton. et episcopo Rofensi' – cf. the text on fols. 44v–45r).

Date: s. xii in.
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Cf. Leland, Itin. 1. 263
Ownership:

Richard Bentley 1757.