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Ethicus, Cosmographia — Worcester, Worcestershire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Worcester, Worcestershire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Vespasian B.x fols. 31–124
Author/Title: Ethicus, Cosmographia
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

Worcester provenance has been suggested on the ground of John Dee's note (C. H. Turner, Early Worcester MSS., p. lxxi). Bound with life of St Brandan etc. by Cotton. 

Leland includes Ethicus among the dozen items he noted in the Worcester library.

Date: s. x–xi
Medieval Catalogue: B118.10

Further details of medieval catalogue: B118. BENEDICTINES: THE SHORTER CATALOGUES: Worcester: Leland, c. 1536-40
Ownership:

"Joannes Dee 1565 februarii 21 Wigorniae, ex dono decani ecclesiae Mr. Peedai" (fol. 31r), s. xvi.