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Biblia — London, Chantry library at St Peter-upon-Cornhill.


Provenance: London, Chantry library at St Peter-upon-Cornhill.
Location: Metropolitan Archives, London
Shelfmark: P69/PET1/D/2/MS4158A (formerly Guildhall Library 4158A)
Author/Title: Biblia
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

Iste liber pertinet perpetue cantarie duorum capellanorum celebrancium ad altare sancte trinitatis in ecclesia sancti Petri super Cornhull' in London'' (textura, red ink, s. xvin, fol. 549v).

Date: s. xiii ex
Medieval Catalogue: ?SC271.1

Further details of medieval catalogue: SC271. SECULAR INSTITUTIONS: Secular Colleges: London, St Peter-upon-Cornhill: List of books in the church, 19 July 1552
Ownership:

The manuscript was lost to the church at the time of the Reformation, but bought back in 1873.

In 1948 it was deposited in the Guildhall Library and given the mark 4158A.

In 2011 it was taken into the remit of the London Metropolitan Archives and given another mark.