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William of Nassington, Speculum vite (in English) — Denny, Cambridgeshire. Abbey of St James and St Leonard, of Franciscan nuns.


Provenance: Denny, Cambridgeshire. Abbey of St James and St Leonard, of Franciscan nuns.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Hatton 18
Author/Title: William of Nassington, Speculum vite (in English)
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
Notes on evidence:

"Iste liber est venerabilis domine dompne Elesabeth Throgkmorton abbatisse de Denney teste Thoma gylberd in eodem monastio olim manenti" (fol. 210v), s. xvi in.

 

Date: s. xv
Ownership:

"Iste liber pertinet ... ad me Bartholomew Swalow."