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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: 85
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:

'Liber Ecclesie Sarum. Oretis pro anima Ricardi Praty quondam Cicestrensis episcopi [1438–1445]'.

Date: s. xiii
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Young 61 or 114
Notes:

A note saying that this MS. and another, 'Rabanus de naturis rerum', was given by Praty is contradicted by another which says that these MSS. were borrowed from the chapter by Praty and returned by this executor, Wm. Swan.