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Robert Grosseteste, De oculo morali, etc. — Meaux, Yorkshire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Meaux, Yorkshire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Digby 77, fols. 109–149
Author/Title: Robert Grosseteste, De oculo morali, etc.
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:

"Wilflete vult quod iste liber tradatur abbatie de Meios in Holdernes, quia emit eum ab uno monacho eiusdem domus pro viii s. et dubitat utrum monachus habuit potestatem vendendi. Volo etiam quod habeant Thomam de vitutibus [recte: virtutibus] theologie quem emit ab eodem pro iii s. iiii d." (fol. 147v), s. xv.

Date: s. xiv
Notes:

A William Wilflete was master of Clare Hall 1448–1455.