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Polychronicon — Bath, Somerset. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Saviour, St Peter, and St Paul.


Provenance: Bath, Somerset. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Saviour, St Peter, and St Paul.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Arundel 86
Author/Title: Polychronicon
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:

'Libellus iste dictus Cistrensis est ex adquisito fratris Willelmi Saltford Bathonie monachi quem deus coronet in celestibus', s. xv (ad fin., fol. 124v).

Written by John Lutton: 'Qui scripsit librum sit benedictus in euum Iohannes Lutton. Dignus est operarius mercede sua'.

Date: s. xiv/xv
Ownership:

 Lord William Howard (1563–1640), 1587 (fol. 8r).