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Isidorus, Synomina; Sermones; Alcuinus in Cant. Cant.; Comment. anon. in Cant. Cant. — 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: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Royal 5 E.xix
Author/Title: Isidorus, Synomina; Sermones; Alcuinus in Cant. Cant.; Comment. anon. in Cant. Cant.
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

Identifiable with no. 31 in Patrick Young's cat. of Salisbury MSS. (c. 1622).

Date: s. xi/xii
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Young 31
Ownership:

Seal of a ship on fol. 1r.

 

Notes:

Note by Young on fol. 37r: 'Haec est expositio Alcuini in canticum. Vide exemplar aliud in bibliotheca Jacobea, et prioris commentarii exemplar in museo nostro'.

CMA nos. 8675 & 8676. Young edited Alcuin's commentary in 1638 (? from this MS.)

'D. M.' on fol. 50v.