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Processionale — Norwich, Norfolk. Hospital of St Giles, Bishopgate.


Provenance: Norwich, Norfolk. Hospital of St Giles, Bishopgate.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Additional 57534
Author/Title: Processionale
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

Processionale. Sarum ... adopted for the use in the diocese of Norwich.

"Liber Hospitalis Sancti Egidii in [...]", erased, but legible except for the last word by u. v. light; fol. 137r, s. xv.

Date: s. xiv ex.
Medieval Catalogue: ?SH55.5

Further details of medieval catalogue: SH55. SECULAR INSTITUTIONS: Hospitals, Towns, and the Professions: Norwich, St Giles: List of expenditure on books, 1512-13
Ownership:

Francis Wormald, from Christie's 16 Dec. 1970, lot 25.

"Richard Holdyche is the trewe owner of this booke withe [...] 1552" (fol. 136v). "holdyche" and arms on fol. 137r (? Holdich family of Ranworth, Norfolk).

Given by Edw. Willowby to Henry Bury, 15 Oct. 1602.

W. W. Hull 1813 (? Wm. Winstanley Hull (1794–1873: D.N.B)).

Notes:

F. Wormald, "A medieval processional and its diagrams", in Kunsthistorische Forschungen Otto Pächt zu seinem 70. Geburtstag, 1972, pp. 129–34, with 7 facs. (reduced).