Vita s. Germani; Bestiarium; Miscellanea historica; Fundatio abbatiae de Kyrkestalle, etc. — Kirkstall, Yorkshire. Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.
| Provenance: | Kirkstall, Yorkshire. Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin. |
| Location: | Bodleian Library , Oxford |
| Shelfmark: | Laud Misc. 722 |
| Author/Title: | Vita s. Germani; Bestiarium; Miscellanea historica; Fundatio abbatiae de Kyrkestalle, etc. |
| Type of evidence: | c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc. |
| Notes on evidence: | Memorandum of A. D. 1511 signed (?) by "Antonius Adyl monachus de Kyrkstall" (fol. 102v). |
| Date: | s. xv |
| Ownership: | Thomas Falkingham of Northall, Leeds, 1595 – and in his possession in 1620, when used by Roger Dodsworth. John Hundleby owned the last item, fols. 193–204. |
| Notes: | Dodsworth 140, fols. 98–108, was part of Laud Misc. 722. Nothing to show early ownership. Inference from the "fundacio" (fols. 129r ff.). Cf. M.V. Clarke & N. Denholm Young in Bull. J. Rylands Libr. 15 (Jan. 1931), who treat the internal evidence as conclusive. Notes in the same hand run through the volume (s. xvi, after 1539). |