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Ordinale — Barking, Essex. Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelburga, of Benedictine nuns.


Provenance: Barking, Essex. Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelburga, of Benedictine nuns.
Location: University College, Oxford
Shelfmark: 169
Author/Title: Ordinale
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Memorandum quod anno domini millesimo quadragintesimo quarto domina Sibilla . . . Abbatissa de Berkyng hunc librum ad usum Abbatissarum in dicta domo . . . concessit' (fol. 6v).

Date: s. xiv/xv
Ownership:

John Humphry of Rothwell (sale, 4 December 1682, lot 20): see T. Hearne, Collections, Oxford Historical Soc. 9, p. 247.

Belonged to Obadiah Walker, according to William Fulman (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 299, fol. 13r).