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Prudentius — 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: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Add. 24199
Author/Title: Prudentius
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
  • Evidence:
  • Author-title inscription and pressmark
  • Evidence:
  • Author-title inscription and pressmark
Notes on evidence:

'Liber prudencii poete de pugna viciorum 7 virtutum cum ymaginibus P.123' (top fol. 2r, s. xiv).

The two parts of the volume seem to have been bound together by the 15th cent. (see fol. 89v).

Date: s. x–xii
Pressmark:

P.123

Ownership:

Purchased at the sale of Archbishop Tennison's manuscripts, 1 July 1861 (lot 74).