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Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica — 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: 42
Author/Title: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

Bequeathed by Robert de Bellaf (s. xiii): 'Iste liber est ecclesie Sarr'' on flyleaf, s. xiii.

'Liber ecclesie Cathedralis Sar'' , s. xv.

Date: s. xiii in.
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Young 119
Notes:

Badly damaged.

Cf. Emden, Register, 1. 139 (R. de Beanfo, Canon of Salisbury 1184). Giraldus Cambrensis called him 'vir liberalissimus' (Opera 3. 92).