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Ambrosius — Bermondsey, Surrey. Cluniac priory and (from 1399) abbey of St Saviour.


Provenance: Bermondsey, Surrey. Cluniac priory and (from 1399) abbey of St Saviour.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Bodley 751
Author/Title: Ambrosius
Type of evidence: b: evidence from binding or elements of a binding typical of a particular library, or pastedowns bearing evidence of provenance
Notes on evidence:

Contains on flyleaves parts of a monastic catalogue of books, some with Cluniac interest, and the household expenses of Prince Edward of Windsor in journeying from London to Dover in August and September 1325, a route which passed through Bermondsey. The binding is 15th-cent. English work. See Sharpe, Benedictines, 22–3, for the surmised attribution of the catalogue to Bermondsey.

Date: s. xii ex