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Gesta Romanorum, etc. — Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.


Provenance: Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
Location: Huntington Library, San Marino (CA, USA)
Shelfmark: HM 1342
Author/Title: Gesta Romanorum, etc.
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
  • Evidence:
  • List of contents
  • Evidence:
  • List of contents
Notes on evidence:

Contents (De dedicatione ecclesiae Westmonasterii) suggests possible provenance.

This copy does not appear in the lists printed by MRJ in The MSS. of Westm. Abbey.

H. C. Schulz provides description which doesn't establish provenance any better (letter of 22. 2. 1940).

Contents of the book:

Littera magni Turci ad papam; De inventione Veronicae; Gesta Romanorum moralizata; De dedicatione ecclesiae Westmonasterii; De fundatoribus et mirabilibus Romae, etc.

Date: s. xv
Ownership:

An English collector c. 1650.

Lord Powis c. 1840.

Sold (1923 no. 338) to Rosenbach. Obtained from Rosenbach 1926.

Notes:

de Ricci, Census, 1. 106.

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