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Cicero, Questiones Tusculane — Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.


Provenance: Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: IA.17230 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Cicero, Questiones Tusculane
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:

At end a slip is pasted with 'Jhon Jhones brundunen./ Monachus cenobii Westmonasterii/ Monachorum. voluntas habet penam. Necsescitas [sic] parit nobis coronam'.

Date: 1469, Rome
Ownership:

Cracherode, a. d. 1790.

Notes:

BL Cat. of Incunabula 4. 19.

'Voluntas habet penam' again and other scribbles by Jones on the verso of the last leaf of text.

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