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Beda, Historia ecclesiastica; Versus Æthelwulfi — Winchester, Hampshire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun.


Provenance: Winchester, Hampshire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun.
Location: Cathedral , Winchester
Shelfmark: 1
Author/Title: Beda, Historia ecclesiastica; Versus Æthelwulfi
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Cotton Tib. D.iv part ii, fols. 158–166 was part of Winchester Cathedral 1; "On fol. 45v, in a hand of the xiv c., is a note on the translation of St. Birinus ... from which it may be inferred that the MS. was already at Winchester when the note was written" (G. F. Warner & Plummer). Plummer cannot suggest its original home.

 

Date: s. xi in.
Pressmark:

[Colophon by Ædelelm, the last scribe].

Notes:

Cf. Plummer, Baedae Op. Hist., 1. cx–cxi.

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