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Benedictionale — 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: Cathedral , Salisbury
Shelfmark: 1
Author/Title: Benedictionale
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

The following are listed: a) manuscripts containing evidence, indicated here by sigla or under notes, that they belonged to Salisbury Cathedral Library before 1540; b) MSS. listed in Patrick Young's catalogue made in 1622 or 1623, concerning which there is no reason to suppose that they were added to the Library between 1540 and 1622; c) MSS. which are likely to have been at Salisbury before 1540, but which are not listed in Young's catalogue: these are queried.

Date: s. xii
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Young 163
Notes:

Title on flyleaf: 'Benedicciones pontificis ante agnus dei 2o folio adiutorium'.

18 long lines.

See Chr. Wordsword in J. M. J. Fletcher, Notes on the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, 1920, p. 131.