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J. Lydgate (in English) — Battle, Sussex. Benedictine abbey of St Martin.


Provenance: Battle, Sussex. Benedictine abbey of St Martin.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Sloane 4031
Author/Title: J. Lydgate (in English)
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Liber S. Martini de Bello ex provisione domini Iohannis Nuton abbatis' (obliterated inscription af fin., fol. 189v, said to have read thus). Nuton was abbot 1463–1490.

Date: s. xv
Ownership:

'Liber Willelmi Saunder' (fol. 2r, s. xvi).

'Wm Saunders owt this boke wch wase the lady Elizabeth Carewes of Eddyngton' (fol. 1v, s. xvi).

Other names written on the same page: Lewkenor, Lawarre, etc.

'Thomas lord dacres', 'Dam Anne dacres'.

'N. Hern 1687' (fol. 4v).