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Polychronicon — London, Convent of Austin friars.


Provenance: London, Convent of Austin friars.
Location: Trinity College , Dublin, Ireland
Shelfmark: 486
Author/Title: Polychronicon
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Pro noua libraria fratrum Augustinensium London. per me ffratrem Iohannem Lowe Assaphensem Episcopum 1436' (fol. 1r at foot).

Date: s. xv1
Ownership:

'Ex dono Milonis Summer. Liber Collegii Trinitatis Dublin.'

Notes:

Accordig to Leland 'Lowe episcopus à fundamentis construxit [bibliothecam] et libris ornavit.' (Collectanea 4. 54). Notes by Lowe, by Bale, and, lalter, by an Irishman.

Foliation 1r–183r in Bale's hand. 

No doubt this MS. is the source of Bale's information about Lowe, Scriptores, p. 576.