Paris, private collection, Musee des lettres et manuscrits Aldhelm, "De laudibus virginitatis" ("Yale Aldhelm Fragments;' bifolium) (with 92, 172, 173b, 330, 372, 395, 438b)

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438a. Paris, private collection, Musee des lettres et manuscrits

Aldhelm, "De laudibus virginitatis"

("Yale Aldhelm Fragments;' bifolium)

(with 92, 172, 173b, 330, 372, 395, 438b)

[Ker 12 & Supp., Gneuss 857]

HISTORY: A bifolium from Aldhelm, "De laudibus virginitatis;' the "Yale" fragments, early 9c with later 10c A-S glosses (see 330). The manuscript was in a Brighton bookshop, being dismantled for wrappers, until 1827. This leaf has had a hard time settling down: its first known owner was James Tregaskis, London, until 1921; then owned by Wilfred Merton, Slindon, in the Merton collection as MS 41 until 1958; then purchased by Peter Ludwig, Aachen, through the dealer H. P. Kraus in 1961, and in the Ludwig Collection as MS XI 5 until 1983; it was purchased with the entire Ludwig collection by the Getty trust in 1983; these leaves sold to Martin Schøyen of Oslo in 1988 and kept at Bernard Quaritch Booksellers, London, as Schøyen Collection, MS 197; sold at Sotheby's sale "The History of Western Script: Sixty Important Manuscript Leaves from the Schøyen Collection'' (10 July 2012) to an anonymous buyer in France (p.c. Alex Day for Bernard Quaritch; p.c. Camilla Previte for Sotheby's; p.c. Cathie Reami for Astrophil lettres et manuscrits, Paris).