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Order NumberCCA-DCc/AddMs/16
TitleGospel Fragment
Dateearly 9th century
DescriptionPart 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.
ExtentParchment, 1f
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1f; 390 x 200mm max
AccessStatusOpen
CopiesDigitised
Related MaterialRest of the volume, BL Royal I.E.vi & Bodl Lib, Lat Bibl b.2(P)
Publication NoteDescribed 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

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