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On the order of knighthood, etc. (French); Romance of Saladin and Sir Hugh (French; frgm., 1 fol.) — Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.


Provenance: Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
Location: Society of Antiquaries , London
Shelfmark: 136C fols. 39–42
Author/Title: On the order of knighthood, etc. (French); Romance of Saladin and Sir Hugh (French; frgm., 1 fol.)
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Liber de feretro Sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris Westm ex procuracione fratris Iohannis S[...] anno Regni regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum xxiij Cuius anime propicietur deus Amen', erased but legible by u. v. light (fol. 41v).

Date: s. xiv/xv
Ownership:

Sir Joseph Jekyll gave to the Society in 1796.

Notes:

The two outer bifolia of the first quire of a MS.

Fol. 41 was pasted down, and the leaves were in the order 41, 42, 39, 40.