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Augustinus, De consensu evangelistarum — Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.


Provenance: Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Egerton 3775
Author/Title: Augustinus, De consensu evangelistarum
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
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  • Ownership inscription
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  • Ownership inscription
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  • Ownership inscription
Notes on evidence:

'S. xxx pe[tri] et ed[wardi] West' at the beginning (fols. 1v), in the middle (fol. 64r), and at the end (fol. 126v).

Date: s. xii
Pressmark:

S. xxx

Ownership:

Anthony Dunstan, monk of Westminster (afterwards bp. of Llandaft).

Cope, Bramshill (H.M.C., 3rd report, app., p. 242); omitted from sale catalogue, Sotheby's, 4 March 1913, but sold as lot 9A to Maggs;

Lt.-Col. W. E. Mos; his sale at Sotheby's, 2 March 1937, lot 53, wrongly described as a Bury MS., and as one of those from Redgrave Hall sold in 1910.

E. G. Millar, London.

Notes:

Monastic binding.

The pressmark corresponds to one found in two places in Royal MS 5 B.viii (fols. 50r & 137r): '·S· xl· pe et ed West'. Cf. also Edinburgh.