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BARING-GOULD (SABINE)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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BARING-GOULD (SABINE)

Autograph manuscript headed "St Cuby of Duloe", being an investigation into the life and work of the sixth-century saint Cornish saint active in Wales; with a covering autograph letter signed, sending it to his fellow Cornish antiquary J.D. Enys, and another autograph letter signed, to Mr Collier, about the felling of the Brimpts Dartmoor oak wood, 9 pages, with extensions tipped onto another page, 8vo and small 4to, the letter to Collier 1893, the rest 1900

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St Cuby (otherwise known as Cybi, Kebi, or Mo Chop), was the patron saint of Caergybi, Holyhead, and founder of churches. Baring-Gould investigated him in his Lives of the Saints in 1872 and, again, in 1907-8, where he printed a 'new' life of him (Appendix, pp. 379-383).

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