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Avicenna — Soulseat, Wigtownshire. Premonstratensian abbey of St John the Evangelist.


Provenance: Soulseat, Wigtownshire. Premonstratensian abbey of St John the Evangelist.
Location: University Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
Shelfmark: 165
Author/Title: Avicenna
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
Notes on evidence:

'Iste liber pertinet abbatis SAncte Sedes Enimarum' (s. xvi); facs. in Cat. of MSS. in Edingburgh, UL, pl. xxiv.

Inscriptions on fols. 1, 3, cut out.

 

Date: s. xiii
Ownership:

'Iste liber pertinet episcopi Orkad' (? Andrew, bp. 1476–1503 and vicar of Kirkbean).

Robertus de Tynnyngham.

Given by David Bruce of Edingburgh in 1676.