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W. Altissiodorensis (IV) — Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.


Provenance: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.
Location: Pembroke College, Cambridge
Shelfmark: 4
Author/Title: W. Altissiodorensis (IV)
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

First leaf with pressmark has gone, but the hand is the same as in Pembroke MS 2. Carries the names Willelmus Babynton (abbot, 1445–53) and Iohannes Lavynham.

Date: s. xiii
Ownership:

William Smart (d. 1599), portreeve of Ipswich, by whom given to Pembroke.