- Production date
- [between 1185 and 1199]
- Call number
- mssHM 45717
- Provenance
- Not manuscript no. xxvii in the mid-twelfth century catalogue of the Bury St. Edmunds abbey: "Epistole senece et sidonius, suetonius [erased]," ed. M. R. James, On the Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Octavo Pub. 28 (Cambridge 1895) 24. Probably to be identified with the entry for Suetonius in the "Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiae" of Henry of Kirkestede (See Ker, MLGB, 21, and R. M. Thomson, "The Library of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Speculum 47 (1972) 617-45). Bury pressmark, second half of 15th cent., crossed out, in the upper right margin of f. 1: "S. 18." Received in the library of Sion College after the Great Fire of 1666 and before the publication in 1697 of Bernard, Catalogi where it is cited, 2:107, no. 4087. Sion College stamped ex libris on ff. 1, 40v, 117v, and its shelf mark, Arc. L.40.2/L. 9, on the front pastedown and on the round label on the spine; "anc. 2=3" in red ink on the front pastedown and on f. i. Sion College sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1977, lot 71; acquired by the Huntington Library, in part with funds given in memory of William D. Truesdell.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 150 x 217 mm
- Associated organizations
- Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds,
- Sion College.
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.