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Missale, etc. — Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: Cathedral , Chichester
Author/Title: Missale, etc.
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

The form of monastic profession, fol. iii recto, is "Ego frater .N. offerens trado me ipsum diuine pietati in ecclesia sancte marie de Kenilleworth serviturum secundum Regulam sancti Augustini...".

Date: s. xiii
Ownership:

"Liber Roberti Baskett de Blandford Bryan Dorset" (s. xviii).

Notes:

A very pretty book. Small folios, 24 long lines. At end, fol. 128r, is a form added s. xiv, with rubric – erased but legible – "In die an[n]iuersar' fundatorum Kenelworth". In the litanies – original – Augustine and Peter are doubled.

Medieval binding of bare wooden boards.