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Mariale — Manchester, Lancashire. Collegiate church of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Manchester, Lancashire. Collegiate church of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: Huntington Library, San Marino (CA, USA)
Shelfmark: HM 26560
Author/Title: Mariale
Type of evidence: g: evidence from an inscription consisting of a title or, when a pressmark, a personal name in the genitive case
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Notes on evidence:

"Mariale magistri Thome la Warre".

Date: s. xiv ex.
Ownership:

"Laurentius Vause grammatice magister me possidet [fellow of Manchester coll. and warden 1558]".

Richard Wroe, warden of Manchester coll., d. 1717; cf. Cat. MSS. Angliae 2. 7160.

Starkie family of Huntroyde, Lancs.: sale of G. P. Le Gendre Starkie, 10 Dec. 1962, lot. 136, to Messrs. Maggs for Huntington Libr. (£680).

Notes:

Rebound, but marks of chain at head and foot of old flyleaf. Lawarrre was founder of Manchester college and died in 1427, see Emden, Register of Univ. of Oxford, p. 1111.

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