Collectarium cum Kalendario — Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Dominican convent.
| Provenance: | Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Dominican convent. |
| Location: | Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge |
| Shelfmark: | 3–1967 (205) |
| Author/Title: | Collectarium cum Kalendario |
| 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: | (fol. 6r) "Orate pro anima Venerabilis patris fratris Roberti mylys sacre theologie magistri ac quondam prouincialis anglie qui hunc librum fieri fecit Anno Christi Mo CCCCCo XXiijo".
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| Date: | 1523 |
| Ownership: | Transferred from Woodchester in 1947 or 1948. Given to the convent of Dominicans at St Bartholomew's Smithfield, 12 Sept. 1557, by Thomas Dowman, "Sacerdot' ecclesiæ Lychfyldensis". A later inscr. reads: "Orate pro anima fratris Vincentii Torre Sacre Theologie magistri Prouincie Angliæ Vicarii Generalis Ordinis Fratrum Predicatorum, qui hunc librum Dono acceptum ab adm Reverendo P. Paulo Fordaens Priore Brugensi eiusdem Ordinis, die 3 Junii 1683, deposuit in Bibliotheca fratrum Predicatorum Anglo. Bornhemiensium Pro Conventu suo Sancti Batholomei Londinensis die 15a Junii 1683. Robert Miles DD, Prior of Kings Langley, was at the same time Provincial. He is mentioned as such in 1522 and 1527. Formerly owned by Oxford, Blackfriars. |
| Notes: | Contemporary white leather over boards. Liturgical book hand and decoration of 15th-cent. type. Dominican Kalendar altered on the continent in s. xviii. |