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- 1100-1200 (The contents table inside the front cover is of 15C date.) (Creation)
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1 volume 10+ x 7 in., 147 ff.; 40 and 36 lines to a page. vellum
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John Gunthorpe bequeathed this vol. (possibly with others) in 1498 - see his entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. A note inside the front cover says he bought it in London on 20 Dec. 1484 for fifteen shillings. M. R. James believed the 15C contents list is in the hand of the abbey librarian of Bury St Edmunds.
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Selections from Augustine: M. R. James's no. 49. Contains: 1) Augustinus super Genesim ad literam libri xii (ff. 1-99); 2) Augustinus de gratia novi testamenti (ff. 100-123; at f. 100 an initial has been cut out); 3) Prologus ex libro primo retractatus S. Augustini (f. 124); 4) Liber S. Augustini ad Honoratum de utilitate credendi (ff. 125-140); 5) Sermo S. Augustini de laude karitatis, incipit: Divinarum scripturarum mulitplicem (ff. 141-42); 6) An untitled tract, incipit: (O)mnis diuina scriptura circa triplicem intellectum, ends imperfectly (ff. 143-47).
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No. 3 in James's Ecloga Cantabrigiensis (1600), p. 137. See also M. R. James, On the Abbey of St Edmund at Bury, pp. 3, 46.