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Biblia (3 or 4(?) vols., formerly 2) — 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: 17
Author/Title: Biblia (3 or 4(?) vols., formerly 2)
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

It has been suggested that this is the bible obtained from St Swithun's for Witham by King Henry II, and afterwards returned by the agency of St Hugh, bp. of Lincoln (see Vita S. Hugonis Linc. Ep., ed. J. F. Dimock , RS (1864), p. 92).

Date: s. xii
Notes:

See N.P.S. 2. 166, 167.