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MS. e Mus. 31

Summary Catalogue no.: 3574

Contents

1.
Augustine, Retractions
Language(s): Latin
4.
Isidore, De ortu et obitu patrum
Language(s): Latin
6.
Isidore, De uiris illustribus
Language(s): Latin
7.
Gennadius, De uiris inlustribus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 107)

Binding

White leather on boards, with tags at top and bottom; bosses and most of the clasp gone, 13th-cent. (?) English work.

History

Origin: 12th century, second quarter ; English, Bury St. Edmunds

Provenance and Acquisition

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Liber sancti Ӕdmundi'; 'A.31'. Medieval, probably contemporary binding. The old outer jacket appears now to be doing duty as the cover of MS Laud Misc. 233. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

John Parry, 1653–4. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 686

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.

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