| Shelfmark |
MS. Eng. poet. a. 1 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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3938, 3939, 3940, 3941, 3942 |
| Summary of contents |
Poems and prose treatises in Middle English and Anglo-Norman
('The Vernon Manuscript').
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| Language |
Middle English, Anglo-Norman |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
c.
1390-1400
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Good miniatures, by two hands, the first, fols. 105 ff., 265, an
English parallel to the 'Ci nous dit' group of Flemish MSS., the second, fols.
124 ff. Good diagram, borders, initials in different styles (five or six
different hands (?)). Mention of earthquake in 1382 and of incident in 1384.
(P&A iii. 676, pl. LXX-LXXI)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 789 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 790 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 791 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 792 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 105r Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth: "Then per was a swete
metynge, swete clyppinge and swete cussynge".
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| Bibliography |
| 2001 |
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| Middle English poetry: texts and
traditions. Essays in honour of Derek Pearsall, ed. A. J. Minnis (York
Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, 5), York & Woodbridge, etc.:
York Medieval Press,
2001, pp. 27-8, 29
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| 2000 |
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| Kathleen Scott, 'The illustration and decoration of the
Register of the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity at Luton Church, 1475-1546', in
The English medieval book: studies in memory of Jeremy
Griffiths, eds. A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie & Ralph Hanna,
London: The British Library,
2000, pp. 155-183, at pp. 164, 165, 166
pl. 6 (fol. 265r detail)
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| Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh
manuscripts [collected articles], [Cardiff]: University of Wales Press
& The National Library of Wales,
2000, pp. 82, 247
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| Cited in more than one article in New directions in later medieval manuscript studies: essays
from the 1998 Harvard Conference, ed. Derek Pearsall, Woodbridge, etc.:
York Medieval Press,
2000, pp. 24 n. 42, 116
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| Cited in more than one article in Studies in the Harley manuscript: the scribes, contents and
social contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253, ed. Susannna Fein,
Kalamazoo, Michigan,
2000, pp. 5 n., 141 n., 161, 227 n.
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| 1999 |
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| Kathryn Kerby-Fulton & Denise L. Despres,
Iconography and the professional reader: the politics of
book production in the Douce Piers Plowman (Medieval Cultures, 15),
London & Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1999, pp. 126, 148
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| Julia Boffey & A. S. G. Edwards, 'Literary texts', in
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol.
III, 1400-1557, eds. Lotte Hellinga & J. B.
Trapp, Cambridge
1999, pp. 555-75, at p. 557
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| Susanna Fein, 'Roll or codex? The diptych layout of Thomas
of Hales's Love Rune', in Sources, exemplars, and copy-texts: influence and transmission.
Essays from the Lampeter Conference of the Early Book Society 1997, ed.
William Marx (Trivium, 31), Lampeter
1999, pp. 13-23, at p. 16
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| Ruth J. Dean (with Maureen B. M. Boulton),
Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and
manuscripts (Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series,
No. 3), London
1999, nos. 252, 255
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.
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| 1998 |
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| Susanna Greer Fein, ed., Moral Love
songs and laments (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), Kalamazoo, MI,
1998, pp. ix, 87-160 (fols. 315v-316v)
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| Celia Millward, ed., La Estorie del
Evangelie: a parallel-text edition (Middle English Texts, 30),
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter,
1998, as siglum 'V', at pp. 7, 9, 12,
39-42, 78-80, etc. (fols. 105r-v)
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| Fiona Somerset, Clerical discourse
and lay audience in late medieval England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval
Literature, 37), Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press,
1998, p. 39 n. 47
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| The Arthurian Bibliography, III,
1978-1992, Author Listing and Subject Index, compiled by Caroline Palmer
(Arthurian Studies, 31), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1998, no. 5197 = Ursula Schmid, ed.,
Codex Vindobonensis 2885: Deutsche Sammelhandschriften
des späten Mittelalters (Bibliotheca Germanica 26), Bern 1985
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| Sigrid Krämer, Bibliographie
Bernhard Bischoff und Verzeichnis aller von ihm herangezogenen
Handschriften (Fuldaer Hochschulschriften, 27), Frankfurt am Main:
Verlag Josef Knecht,
1998, No. 227, 48*
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| A guide to editing Middle
English, eds. Vincent P. McCarren & Douglas Moffat, Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press,
1998, p. 96 and n. 6; p. 330
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| 1997 |
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| The Index of Middle English Prose,
Handlist XII, Smaller Bodleian collections:
English miscellaneous, English poetry, English theology, Finch, Latin theology,
Lyell, Radcliffe Trust, ed. Ralph Hanna III, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1997, pp. xi, xii-xviii, xxi, xxiv, xxv,
4-8, 10
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| Vincent Gillespie, 'Medieval hypertext: image and text
from York Minster', in Of the making of books: medieval
manuscripts, their scribes and readers. Essays presented to M. B.
Parkes, ed. P. R. Robinson & Rivkah Zim, Aldershot: Scolar Press,
1997, pp. 206-229, at p. 221
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| Phillipa Hardman, 'Windows into the text: unfilled spaces
in some fifteenth-century English manuscripts', in Texts
and their contexts: papers from the early book society, eds. John
Scattergood & Julia Boffey, Dublin
1997, pp. 44-70, at pp. 46-8
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| 1996 |
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| Lynne S. Blanchfield, 'Rate revisited: the compilation of
the narrative works in MS Ashmole 61', in Romance reading
on the book: essays on medieval narrative presented to Maldwyn Mills,
eds. Jennifer Fellows et al., Cardiff: University
of Wales Press,
1996, pp. 208-220, at p. 220 n. 39
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| Ralph Hanna III, Pursuing history:
Middle English manuscripts and their texts, Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press,
1996, pp. 38f., 44, 76, 199, 231, 235
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| Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic
Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the
British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers,
1996, no. 1; I, pp. 24, 27, 33, 40, 45-7,
65n. 5, 73 n. 37, 74 nn. 3-5, 76 n. 13, 78 n. 64; II, pp. 31, 34, 35, 53, 66,
82, 122, 268; ills. 2-5, col. pl. 3
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.
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| L. Carruthers, 'In pursuit of holiness outside the
cloister: religion of the heart in The Abbey of the Holy
Ghost', in Models of holiness in medieval sermons:
Proceedings of the International Symposium (Kalamazoo, 4-7 May 1995),
ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle et al. (Fédération
Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Médiévales, Textes et Etudes du Moyen
Age, 5), Louvain-la-Neuve
1996, pp. 211-227, at p. 212ff.
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| 1995 |
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| John B. Friedman, 'Harry the Haywarde and Talbat his Dog:
an illustrated girdlebook from Worcestershire', in Art
into Life: Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval
Symposia, eds. C. G. Fisher & K. L. Scott, East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press,
1995, pp. 115-153, at pp. 119, 145 n. 19
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| William Langland, Piers Plowman: a
parallel-text version of the A, B, C and Z versions, vol. I,
Text, ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, London & New York:
Longman,
1995, p. x (List of Manuscripts)
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| Stephen H. A. Shepherd, ed., Middle
English Romances (A Norton Critical Edition), New York & London,
1995, pp. 369 n. ff. (fols. 231r-232v);
500, 502, 503
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Kathleen L. Scott, 'Limning and book-producing terms and
signs in situ in late-medieval English
manuscripts: a first listing', in New science out of old
books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A. I.
Doyle (eds. Richard Beadle & A. J. Piper), Aldershot: Scolar Press,
1995, pp. 142-188, at pp. 145, 147, 154,
158, 161
SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CI.30
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| Derek Pearsall, 'The Ellesmere Chaucer and contemporary
English literary manuscripts', in The Ellesmere Chaucer:
essays in interpretation, eds. Martin Stevens & Daniel Woodward, San
Marino, CA: Huntington Library, and Tokyo: Yushodo Co., Ltd.,
1995, pp. 263-280, at pp. 264, 278-79 n.
53
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| John B. Friedman, Northern English
books, owners and makers in the late Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse
University Press,
1995, p. 116
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| Sarah M. Horrall, '"Man Yhernes Rime for to Here": a
biblical history from the Middle Ages', in Art into life:
Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposia (eds. C.
G. Fisher & K. L. Scott), East Lansing: Michigan State University Press,
1995, pp. 73-93, at pp. 81, 91 n. 23
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| Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic
song: the Psalms as moral discourse in late medieval England (University
of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia
1995, pp. 266 n. 45, 274
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| F. J. Steele, Towards a spirituality
for lay-folk: the active life in Middle English religious literature from the
thirteenth century to the fifteenth (Salzburg University Studies:
Salzburg Studies in English Literature, Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies,
vol. 92:23), Lewiston, NY, & Salzburg: The Edwin Mellen Press,
1995, p. 202 (listing in the bibliography)
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| 1994 |
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| Bella Millett, 'Mouvance and
the medieval author: re-editing Ancrene Wisse', in
Late-medieval religious texts and their transmission:
essays in honour of A. I. Doyle, edited by A. J. Minnis (York
Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, vol. III), Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer,
1994, pp. 9-20, at p. 9n.
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| O. S. Pickering, 'The outspoken South English Legendary poet', in Late-medieval religious texts and their transmission: essays in
honour of A. I. Doyle, edited by A. J. Minnis (York Manuscripts
Conferences: Proceedings Series, vol. III), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1994, pp. 21-37, at pp. 34, 35
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| Vincent Gillespie, 'Thy will be done:
Piers Plowman and the Paternoster', in Late-medieval
religious texts and their transmission: essays in honour of A. I. Doyle,
edited by A. J. Minnis (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, vol.
III), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1994, pp. 95-119, at p. 97
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| John J. Thompson, 'Another look at the religious texts in
Lincoln, Cathedral Library, MS 91', in Late-medieval
religious texts and their transmission: essays in honour of A. I. Doyle,
edited by A. J. Minnis (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, vol.
III), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1994, pp. 169-87, at pp. 179, 184, 185,
186n.
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| Charlotte Brewer & A. G. Rigg, eds.,
Piers Plowman: a facsimile of the Z-Text in Bodleian
Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 851, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1994, p. 45 (Bibliography of 'Manuscripts
cited', siglum 'V')
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| 1993 |
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| Nigel Morgan, 'Texts and images of Marian devotion in
fourteenth-century England', in England in the fourteenth
century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Nicholas
Rogers (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, III), Stamford: Paul Watkins,
1993, pp. 34-57, figs. 46-9, at p. 37 and
n. 8; p. 40 n. 18; p. 41 and nn. 24, 26; p. 43 nn. 35-6; p. 52 n. 81
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| 1992 |
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| Cameron Louis, 'Some alternative sources of Tudor poetry
texts', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 (eds.
P. Beal & J. Griffiths), 3 (
1992), pp. 246-57, at p. 253
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| Josephine Koster Tarvers, '"Thys ys my mystrys boke":
English women as readers and writers in late medieval England', in
The uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in
memory of Judson Boyce Allen, eds. Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed
Doob & Marjorie Curry Woods (Studies in medieval culture, 31), Kalamazoo,
Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications,
1992, pp. 305-27, at pp. 316-7
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| Catalogue of the Pepys Library at
Magdalene College Cambridge (general ed. R. Latham), vol. V,
Manuscripts, Part i: Medieval (compiled by Rosamond McKitterick & R.
Beadle), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1992, pp. 21, 56, 57, 86
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| 1991 |
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| Jeremy J. Smith, 'Tradition and innovation in
South-West-Midland Middle English', in Regionalism in
late medieval manuscripts and texts: Essays celebrating the publication of
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, ed. Felicity Riddy (= York
Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, 2 [Proceedings of the 1989
Conference]), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1991, pp. 53-65, at p. 62
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| David Rogers, The Bodleian Library
and its treasures 1320-1700, Henley-on-Thames: Aidan Ellis,
1991
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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| 1990 |
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| Valerie Edden, ed., Richard
Maidstone's Penitential Psalms ed. from Bodl. MS. Rawlinson A 389
(Middle English Texts 22), Heidelberg
1990, pp. 7 (= 'V'), 17, etc.
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| M. Glasscoe in Langland, the mystics
and the medieval English religious tradition: essays in honour of S. S.
Hussey (ed. Helen Phillips), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990, at p. 152 n. 42
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| H. Phillips in Langland, the mystics
and the medieval English religious tradition: essays in honour of S. S.
Hussey (ed. Helen Phillips), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990, at p. 257
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| A. Henry in Langland, the mystics
and the medieval English religious tradition: essays in honour of S. S.
Hussey (ed. Helen Phillips), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990, at p. 47 n. 33 [fol. 260v]
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| Derek Pearsall, ed., Studies in the
Vernon Manuscript, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990, passim; see esp. index, p. 237
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| Kathleen L. Scott, 'The illustrations of
Piers Plowman in Bodleian Library MS Douce 104',
The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 4 (
1990), 1-86 at p. 3
Bodleian shelfmark: = REFS. LXXXVII.17
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| Matthew Sullivan, The original and
subsequent audiences of the Manuel des Péchés and
its Middle English descendants, D. Phil. thesis, Oxford University,
1990
Bodleian shelfmark: = MS. D. Phil. c. 8349
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| Peter Whiteford, ed., The Myracles
of Oure Lady ... from Wynkyn de Worde's edition (Middle English Texts,
23), Heidelberg
1990, pp. 18, 75-6, 82-3, 101, 103, 106-7
(Cat. 8), 109
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| Norman F. Blake, 'Vernon Manuscript: contents and
organisation', in Studies in the Vernon
Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990, pp. 45-59
|
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| Stanley S. Hussey, 'Implications of choice and arrangement
of texts in Part 4', in Studies in the Vernon
Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,
1990, pp. 61-74
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| P. R. Robinson, 'The Vernon Manuscript as a "coucher book"
', Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, ed. Derek
Pearsall, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990, pp. 15-28
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| Thorlac Turville-Petre, 'The relationship of the Vernon
and Clopton Manuscripts', Studies in the Vernon
Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,
1990, pp. 29-44
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| 1986 |
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| Bernhard Bischoff, Paläographie des
römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters (Grundlagen der
Germanistik, 24), 2nd edn., Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag,
1986 (1st edn. publ. 1979), p. 48n.
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| 1978 |
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| Siegfried Wenzel, Verses in Sermons:
Fasciculus Morum and its Middle English
poems (The Mediaeval Academy of America, Publication 87), Cambridge
(Mass.),
1978, p. 159
Bodleian shelfmark: = Soc. 3974 d 332/87
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| 1964 |
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| Cited in Studi Medievali, 3rd
Series, vol. V, 1 (
1964), p. 392 [Reference taken from
Studi Medievali, 3rd Ser., Indici, Anni I-XX: 1960-1979 (ed. G. Zanella), Spoleto:
Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 1981, pp. 272-6]
Bodleian shelfmark: = Per. 3962 d. 224
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