Augustinus, De videndo Deum, 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: | Cathedral , Salisbury |
| Shelfmark: | 198 |
| Author/Title: | Augustinus, De videndo Deum, etc. |
| Type of evidence: | es: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution and from the style of script or illumination |
| Notes on evidence: |
'Liber iste pertinet ad ecclesiam cathedralem Sar'' inside the cover, s. xiv. The same scribe s. xii wrote the letters 'D.M.' as a 'nota bene' sign in the margins of Aberdeen UL 216, Bodl. 392, 444 (fols. 1–27), 756, 765, 768, 835; Fell 1, 4; Rawl. C.723; Salisbury Cath. 10, 24, 25, 37, 67, 78, 88, 106, 128, 129, 135, 140, 154, 159, 165. Salisbury Cathedral 35, 36, 106, 109, 115, 118, 168, 197 contain the same marking with letters 'vz' in pencil, by one hand, s. xiii (?). Cf. N. R. Ker in Wilts. Archaeol. and Nat. hist. Mag. 53 (1949), p. 174.
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| Date: | s. xi/xii |
| Medieval Catalogue Notes: | Young 131 |
| Ownership: | Later alienated. Sotheby sale 16 Dec. 1970 lot 25 (with facs. of fol. 83v), but withdrawn before the sale and sold by the owners, Lancing College, to Salisbury Cathedral for £1500. |
| Notes: | Contemporary binding. Chainmark at foot of upper cover. For the scribe see the article cited under Royal 6 B.xv, p. 48.
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