Written in a late Carolingian minuscule in 2 columns of 40 lines; pen-work initials in color. Written at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, England. Title supplied by cataloger. Table of contents at the beginning, in a later hand. Bound in original white deerskin over wooden boards, with strap. In a tray case, 37 cm. Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951. Belonged to the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (A.6, later n. LXVII); probably to Sir Nicholas Bacon; inherited by the Holt family of Redgrave; George Holt Wilson of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 21 july 1910, lot 159); to Quaritch (cat. 321, Dec. 1912, n. 249; 344, 1916, n. 42; 357, 1920, n. 380); A. Chester Beatty in 1920 (MS 25); his sale (London, 7 June 1932, I, lot 6...
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