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Carta caritatis; Libellus antiquarum diffinitionum; Novellae diffinitiones; etc. — Newbattle, Midlothian. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Newbattle, Midlothian. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Shelfmark: Advocates 18.4.1
Author/Title: Carta caritatis; Libellus antiquarum diffinitionum; Novellae diffinitiones; 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:

(fol. 68r, end of Nov. Diff.) "Expliciunt noue distinctiones ordinis Cisterciensis per manum dompni alexandri Scot monachi monasterii Besatissime virginis marie de Newbotill xviij mensis Iunii anno domini Millesimo Quingentesimo vicesimo tercio."

Date: 1523
Ownership:

Balfour of Denmilne, 1635.

Notes:

vi + 75 fols.