London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. vi: Book of Proverbs, Alcuin "De virtutibus et vitiis," Hymn, Psalm 50, "Disticha Catonis," Eddius "Vita S. Wilfridi," etc.

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243. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. vi Book of Proverbs, Alcuin "De virtutibus et vitiis," Hymn, Psalm 50, "Disticha Catonis," Eddius "Vita S. Wilfridi," etc. [Ker 207 (Part 1), Gneuss 389, 390] HISTORY: Part 1 (ff. 1-77) dated to the mid-lOc, Part 2 (ff. 78-125) to 11c. Associated with St. Augustine's, Canterbury (cf. pressmark and ex libris on f. 2r); note also the added hymn for St. Augustine on f. 77r. The glosses are Kentish in Part 1, but the origin of the manuscript and its later history remain unknown, although in view of the notes on f. 12Sr, Colgrave (1927: xiii) suggests that the manuscript "was removed from somewhere in Yorkshire to Canterbury.