MS. e Mus. 31
Summary Catalogue no.: 3574
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
White leather on boards, with tags at top and bottom; bosses and most of the clasp gone, 13th-cent. (?) English work.
History
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.
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.