Glossed Gospels, written in France or England in the early 13th
century, consisting of four broadly matching parts - one for each
gospel - plus contemporary endleaves. An additional preliminary
quire (f.1-4) was prefixed to the volume, presumably after the note
of donation by Henry of Melsonby had been added to the original
front-leaf, in the 13th century, but probably not long thereafter
given that the principal scribes of the extra leaves, whose hands
look to be early/mid 13th century, contributed copious
supplementary glosses to the original pages; the preliminary quire
had certainly been added by mid 14th century when a title for the
content of the original core was written on its first page.
Place
Preferred form
England (United Kingdom) (?)
Original form
England or France
Preferred form
France (?)
Original form
England or France
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