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Vulgaria ... Guillelmi Horman — Pipewell, Northamptonshire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Pipewell, Northamptonshire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Douce HH.252 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Vulgaria ... Guillelmi Horman
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:

'... ad magistrum Gresley monachum de Pypwell'

(Title page: beginning of inscriprtion shorn off) 'Pertinet ad virum liber iste religiosum | Et si queratur, Iohannes Godfrey iste vocatur' (ad fin.).

Date: 1519, London (Richard Pynson)
Notes:

Gresley does not appear among the pensioners 1539, Godfrey does (Monasticon, 5. 441b).

Facsimile of title of this copy in the edition ed. by M. R. James, Roxburghe Club, 1926.

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