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Cassiodorus, De institutionibus divinarum litterarum; 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: 88
Author/Title: Cassiodorus, De institutionibus divinarum litterarum; etc.
Type of evidence: me: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe, and from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift
Notes on evidence:

(fol. 1r) at foot 'In isto libro ecclesie cathedralis noue sarum continentur ...' (s. xv).

'Ecclesie Sarum' (fol. 1r), s. xv.

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.

Notes:

A direct copy of Hereford Cathedral O.iii.2 (R.A.B. Mynors, Cassiodori Institutiones, p. xlviii).