Order Number | CCA-DCc/AddMs/16 |
Title | Gospel Fragment |
Date | early 9th century |
Description | Part of one leaf, damaged. Part of the 'Royal Bible', now BL MS Royal I E vi and Bodleian MS Lat bib b 2 (P), written and kept at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. The volume was taken apart by or in the 13th century. The fragment was found in a box of fragments in 1946. From the Gospel of St John ch XI 38 to XII 34. |
Extent | Parchment, 1f |
Physical Description | Parchment, 1f; 390 x 200mm max |
AccessStatus | Open |
Copies | Digitised |
Related Material | Rest of the volume, BL Royal I.E.vi & Bodl Lib, Lat Bibl b.2(P) |
Publication Note | Described in Corpus of Medieval Library Catalogues: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (ed B C Barker-Benfield), 2008; Described in R. Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral (London, 2008), as no 1. |
Discussed W G Urry, 'An Eighth-Century Fragment of the Gospels in the Chapter Library', Friends of Camterbury Cathedral Annual Report xxi (1948), pp33-35 |