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Evangelia ("The Kederminster Gospels") — Windsor, Berkshire. Royal collegiate chapel of St George.


Provenance: Windsor, Berkshire. Royal collegiate chapel of St George.
Location: Parish Church, Langley Marish
Shelfmark: (deposited in London, BL, Loans 11)
Author/Title: Evangelia ("The Kederminster Gospels")
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

"Liber collegii de Wyndesore" (fol. 1r), s. xvi?

Date: s. xi
Ownership:

Sir John Kederminster – bequeathed, 1631, to parish church of Langley Marish.

Notes:

"It is tempting, but dangerous, to identify the book with the 'unus liber Evangelii noviter ligatus', the only entry by which it can be represented, in the 1384–1385 register of the valuables of St George's Chapel, Windsor" (Brit. Mus. Quart. 6 (1932), p. 93). The MS. was deposited at BL 1932.