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Bartolomeus Facius, De vitae felicitate — Hyde (Hida, formerly New Minster, Winchester), Hampshire. Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, St Mary the Virgin, and St Peter.


Provenance: Hyde (Hida, formerly New Minster, Winchester), Hampshire. Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, St Mary the Virgin, and St Peter.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Lat. Misc. e. 118
Author/Title: Bartolomeus Facius, De vitae felicitate
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Flemish script (teste M. Parkes), but in England in s. xv when a table of contents was added, and also forms for the institution of an abbot and Profession of a monk: the latter contains the words "hoc monasterio sancti Petri de Hyda" and "abbas Thomas".

Date: s. xv ex.
Ownership:

"Richard Dowse" scribbled fol. 9v.

Bought at Sotheby's.