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R. Rolle, etc. (partly in English) — Lichfield, Staffordshire. Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin and St Chad.


Provenance: Lichfield, Staffordshire. Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin and St Chad.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Rawlinson A.389
Author/Title: R. Rolle, etc. (partly in English)
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:

Rawlinson A.389 belonged to two prebendaries of Lichfield in s. xv ex. At end: 'Liber magistri Thome Rynold' and 'Liber Magistri Iohannis Redhill'; both were prebendaries of Lichfield in s. xv2.

No. 73 in Patrick Young's catatlogue of the Lichfield cathedral manuscripts, 1622–3. 

The flyleaf, fol. iii, is from a 13th-cent. MS of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae.

Mark of chain (?) shows at foot of fols. iii recto and i recto.

Date: s. xv in.
Medieval Catalogue Notes: Young 73
Ownership:

John Langley of the Amies, Broseley, whose arms are on the binding.

Somers. Somers-Jekyll sale, March 1739–40, no. 112.