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Bestiarium — Newark, Surrey. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr.


Provenance: Newark, Surrey. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Bodley 602 fols. 1–66
Author/Title: Bestiarium
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:

"Iohannes Rosse chanonicus de Newerke et curatus de Weylde est possessor huius libri" (fol. 13v).

"Iste liber pertinet domino Iohanni Rosse chanonico de Newerke iuxta Guldeford" (fol. 1v).

"Memorandum quod dominus Iohannes Rosse habuit hunc librum ex deliberacione confratris nostri domini Willelmi Thecher canonici de newerke videlicet sexto die octobris anno domini Millesimo quinquecentesimo tricesimo octavo hiis testibus confratre nostro domino Richardo Woods Karolo balye ac benedicto barslayd." (fol. 13v).

Date: s. xii & xiii