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Epistole ex registro beatissimi Gregorii — Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert.


Provenance: Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert.
Location: University Library , Cambridge
Shelfmark: Rel.c.50.8 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Epistole ex registro beatissimi Gregorii
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:

At head of last leaf, erased but legible by u. v. light: 'Liber dompni Thome Castell quondam custodis Collegii Dunellm''. 

At head of title page: 'Liber dompni Wyllelmi Wylome, monachi dunl''.

On one of the two binding leaves, now MS. Add. 2751 (7), formerly Add. 4407 (28) (from 14th-cent. MS. of La Chevalerie Vivien): 'Liber quondam dompni Wyllelmi Wylom dunel' monasterii ... Nunc vero domini Nicholai Marley ex dono eiusdem dompni Willelmi cuius anime propicietur deus Amen'.

Date: 1508, Paris
Ownership:

Sir Thomas Tempest Baronet.

Bookplate of a Countess of Sunderland (?).

Given to ULC by Francis Jenkinson (who bought it in 1891) 20. 8. 1917.

MS. leaves given by him 7. 1. 1913.

Notes:

Two binding leaves of Rel.c.50.8 are kept separately as MS. Add. 2751 (7).

Contemporary binding.

Printed Book