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Cassiodorus in Psalmos — 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: 4
Author/Title: Cassiodorus in Psalmos
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

"Iste liber est Ecclesie sancti Swuthuni Winton. qui eum alienauerit anathema sit. Amen" (fol. 1r, at foot), s. xiii ex.

Date: s. xii
Notes:

2o folio: "gímur".

Stylus ruling on fols. 1r–141r (Pss. 1–50).

Good script and initials (brown, red, blue and green).

Two broad cols. of 42 lines. Pencil ruling and pricks in both margins fols. 142r–413.

Contemporary binding: flaps top and bottom; two strap and pin attachments gone. 

In the last quire 3 and 6 have been cancelled and used as pastedowns and replaced by another sheet (in the same hand?).