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Biblia — Gloucester, Gloucestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.


Provenance: Gloucester, Gloucestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
Location: Corpus Christi College , Cambridge
Shelfmark: 485
Author/Title: Biblia
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
  • Evidence:
  • Inscription
  • Evidence:
  • Inscription
Notes on evidence:

'Hunc librum concessit mihi et deliberavit venerab. in Christo pater et dominus Reg. Abbas mon. sancti Petri Glouc. quousque Johannes Orchard monachus . . . ' (fol. ir). Reginald de Homme, abbot 1263–84.

Contains booklist of Robert Aldsworth, for whom it was written.

"Hunc librum fecit scribi Robertus de Aldeswyrth". "dicti monasterii mihi soluerit xxvj s. viij d. nomine Johannis Twenyng monachi et cetera. Et predicto ven. patri Reg. tradidi librum scilicet Bibliam quam implegiauit michi dictus J. Twenyng".

Date: s. xiii
Medieval Catalogue: B47.1

Further details of medieval catalogue: B47. BENEDICTINES: THE SHORTER CATALOGUES: Gloucester: Books owned by Robert of Aldsworth, 13th cent.
Ownership:

(s. xvi) "Sum Richardi Mirre emptus de Willelmo Davis clerico."

(s. xvi or xvii) "Given to Wm. Roberts by Jeremiah Martyn M.D."