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Cicero, Epp. ad familiares — Leiston, Suffolk. Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Leiston, Suffolk. Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: IB.24866 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Cicero, Epp. ad familiares
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:

'Dominus Halton monachus'.

'Domini Iohannis G[reen]e ueteris cenobii anachorite tituli sancte marie quondam abbatis de leyston'.

John Greene resigned in 1531 and retired to the old site of Leiston abbey as anchorite (see Suckling, History of Suffolk, 2. 443).

Date: 1480, Venice