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Iohannes Chrysostomus (2 vols) — Reading, Berkshire. Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Reading, Berkshire. Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: Corpus Christi College , Oxford
Shelfmark: 23, 24
Author/Title: Iohannes Chrysostomus (2 vols)
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Cambridge, Trinity College R. 9. 22, and Oxford, Corpus Christi College 23, 24, 106, New College 240, 241 and 254 were written at Reading Abbey ('εισ το ραδηγκ') by John Serbopoulos of Constantinople.

Date: AD 1499, 1500
Ownership:

William Grocyn (d. 1519) owned MS 23, which was given to the college by John Claymond (1468–1537), first president of the college.

MS 24 was given by Thomas Cecil, Lord Exeter, in 1618.

Notes:

Cambridge, Trinity College R. 9. 22, and Oxford, Corpus Christi College 23, 24, 106, New College 240, 241 and 254 were written at Reading Abbey ('εισ το ραδηγκ') by John Serbopoulos of Constantinople.