MS. e Mus. 93

Provenance and Acquisition

Battle, Sussex, Benedictine abbey of St Martin: catalogue, CBMLC B9.9 (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Brecon, Brecknockshire, Benedictine priory of St John the Evangelist: Hereford P.v.1 and Bodl. e Mus. 93 formed one volume, earlier probably at Battle (above). Sir John Prise found it 'in Brechonia Demetarum . . . urbe . . . ex coenobio Monachorum, quod ibidem erat Benedictini, quem vocant, ordine desumptum' (J. Prise, Historiae Brytanniae Defensio, 1573, p. 114). (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Sir John Prise (d. 1555). e Mus. 93 belonged to Silas Taylor in 1658, for whose dealings with Hereford library see Wood, Athenae, 3. 1175. It formed part of the Hereford MS in s. xvi (see Cambridge, CCC MS 101, pp. 132-133). (MLGB3)