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Caesarius Arelatensis, etc. — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Dominican convent.


Provenance: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Dominican convent.
Location: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy
Shelfmark: Ottoboni lat. 159
Author/Title: Caesarius Arelatensis, etc.
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
Notes on evidence:

'Iste liber est in custodia fratris Simonis de Hunton' qui est de conuentu Canteb'' (part 1, top of fol. 1r, s. xiii/xiv). [This may be Simon de Hinton, the famous preacher.]

'Frater Lauretius dourley(?)' (end of part 1, fol. 120v, s. xv/xvi).

Contents of the book:

Caesarius of Arles, Homiliae X ad monachos.

Isidore of Seville, Sententiae.

Peter of Blois, varia.

 

Date: s. xii/xiii
Ownership:

Marcello Cervini (1501–1555), cardinal, his no. 143.

Gugliemo Sirleto (1514–1585), cardinal and scholar, his no. 221.