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Beda, Ecclesiastica Historia — Selby, York. Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St German.


Provenance: Selby, York. Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St German.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Fairfax 12
Author/Title: Beda, Ecclesiastica Historia
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

17th-cent. inscription states it belonged to Selby priory.

'Cronica XII'. 

'Liber Sancti [...] de Saleby' (s. xv) on front cover, outside.

Date: s. xii
Pressmark: Cronica xii
Ownership:

'W. Santclair of Roislin, knight', 1592.

Walter Cant, advcates of Edinburgh, gave it to col. Charles Fairfax, 1650.

Notes:

Cf. Plummer, Bedae Op. Hist., 1. cxxi.