Liber de benedictionibus patriarcharum (Manuscript from Reading Abbey)

Item author: Paschasius Radbertus
Item date: late 12th century
Grant Value: 150
Item cost pre-decimal: 3,000
Item date acquired: 1967
Item institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire

Only known copy. In its original binding, also contains the following works: Augustine's De Origine animae; Hildebert of Tours: Expositio canonis missae and Ivo of Chartres: Sermo de sacramentis neophitorum habitus in sinodo

Item Provenance
May have been at Lord Fingall's house at Shinfield in 1793, taken by his family to Woolhampton, it later came into the possession of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth