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Isidorus, Etymologiae — 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: 142
Author/Title: Isidorus, Etymologiae
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Iste liber est Ecclesie beate Marie Sar'. Quem qui alienauerit vel abstulerit anathema sit', s. xiii2, on flyleaf.

Date: s. xii–xiii in.
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Young 27
Notes:

Medieval binding.

Above the ex-libris is a cancelled note recording the loan of this MS. by magister R. Chancellor of Salisbury: 'Istum librum comodauit dominus et magister R. Cancellarius Sar' fratri Henrici [recte: Henrico] de Wudeston' qui pro conuentu Sarisburiensi stat Oxon'. Quem qui a dominio dicti domini alienauerit. anathema sit.'