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Expositio hymnorum et sequentiarum — Eye, Suffolk. Benedictine alien priory of St Peter; cell of Bernay.


Provenance: Eye, Suffolk. Benedictine alien priory of St Peter; cell of Bernay.
Location: City Library, Norwich
Shelfmark: F.c.18 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Expositio hymnorum et sequentiarum
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 end: "Iste liber constat dompno Roberto Stowe de Eya cum magno gaudio et honore. Amen quod Christofor R".

Date: London (Richard Pynson) 1497
Notes:

Contemporary stamped binding. 

Robert Stowe occurs as monk of Eye in 1514, 1520 and 1526, but not in 1532 (see A. Jessopp, Visitations of the diocese of Norwich, a. d. 1492–1532, Camden Soc. N.S. 43 (1888), pp. 141, 184, 222).

Christopher Rykingale was precentor in 1526.

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