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Alexandreis, Suidas, etc. — 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: Royal 8 B.iv
Author/Title: Alexandreis, Suidas, etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

Bury pressmark, S.184. Article 5 (Suidas) is a separate quire inscribed 'Quaternus monachorum s. Edmundi de procuracione fr. Henrici de Kirkested, in quo continetur narracio sumpta de libro qui vocatus Suda' (fol. 72r, s. xiv).

At end of art. 5 is: 'Non plus habetur apud Lenniam sed residuum est Oxonie et non continet in toto vnum psalterium'. List of chapters of Suidas in hand of the 15th-cent. librarian.

Date: s. xii–xiv
Pressmark:

S.184

Ownership:

 

John Lumley, first Baron Lumley (c. 1533–1609).