LostManuscripts
Host Volume
Saxo Grammaticus
Danica Historia
USTC 626686; Adams S532
Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel, 1576
Ker centrepiece ix, placed within three concentric rectangles of three-lined fillets.
Oxford
1576x1602
2
1
Fol. ii verso, near top right: 'js' (underlined). ?Same hand writes 'x' (underlined) at verso of final back flyleaf.
Top right of title-page: 'Pretium -- 15 s | W. S. 1646', i.e. William Somner (1598-1669). There is no evidence either for where he purchased or how it reached Canterbury from Oxford. It presumably entered the Cathedral Library on his death with the purchase of his library from his widow [N. Ramsay, 'The Cathedral archives and library', in P. Collinson & others (eds), A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Oxford, 1995), pp. 341--407 at p. 383].
Adams S532; POxBo, sub 1681.6.