Collectanea J. de Wallingford — St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.
| Provenance: | St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban. |
| Location: | British Library, London |
| Shelfmark: | Cotton Julius D.vii |
| Author/Title: | Collectanea J. de Wallingford |
| Type of evidence: | em: evidence from an ex-libris inscription and from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe |
| Notes on evidence: | 'Hic scribuntur nomina fratrum de professione sancti Albani defunctorum a susceptione fratris Iohannis de Walingef' in eodem ordine uidelicet a die sanctorum Dionisii Eustici 7 Eleutherii anno ab incarnatione domini mo cco xxxo primo' (fol. 112v). Contains writing in the hand of Matthew Paris (see R. Vaughan, 'The handwriting of Matthew Paris', Transactions of the Cambridge Bib. Soc. 1 (1953) 390–92). Portrait on fol. 42v headed 'Frater Iohannes de Walingeford quandoque Infirmarius'. 'Hic(?) est liber frater Iohannis de Walingeford quem [ . . . ] uel [ . . . ] uel inde [ . . . . . . ] sit amen amen' (fol. 1v in red). 'Constat Iohanni Conyngesby ex dono Magistri Kyngesbury' (fol. 1r, s. xv). See Wormald, English Benedictine Kalendars after 1100, p. 32. Fols. 50–53 are now bound separately. |
| Date: | s. xiii |