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Augustinus, Epistolae — Eton, Buckinghamshire. Royal College of the Assumption of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Eton, Buckinghamshire. Royal College of the Assumption of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: Eton College , Eton
Shelfmark: 105
Author/Title: Augustinus, Epistolae
Type of evidence: em: evidence from an ex-libris inscription and from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe
Notes on evidence:

'Liber magistri Iohannis Mocer vicarii de tenterden emptus cantuarie a executoribus magistri Thome maris et a magistro Simone hogges officiali pro xxxiii s. iiij d.'. Thomas Mareys, rector of Sturmouth in Kent, d. 1472. Bequeathed to Eton with three others (MS 106 also survives) by John Mower, vicar of Tenterden in Kent in 1489 (see Willoughby, Collegiate Churches, SC233).

The manuscript also contains the marginalia of the Eton fellow Robert Elyot (d. 1499).

Date: s. xii/xiii
Medieval Catalogue: SC233.1

Further details of medieval catalogue: SC233. SECULAR INSTITUTIONS: Secular Colleges: Eton College: Bequest by John Mower, 12 April 1489
Ownership:

An earlier inscription records purchase by Mr Thomas Mareys, rector of Stourmouth (Kent) from the executors of Mr Thomas Chichele, archdeacon of Canterbury, 30 April 1468.

John Mower (d. 1489), by whom given to Eton.