Biblia latina — Pipewell, Northamptonshire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Provenance: | Pipewell, Northamptonshire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin. |
Location: | private collection, Düsseldorf, Germany |
Author/Title: | Biblia latina |
Type of evidence: | e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution |
Notes on evidence: | 'Iste liber pertinet ad me Iohannem Webster clericum ex dono domus beate Marie virginis de pipewell a. d. 1538 5o die novembris. Quicunque alienaverit anathema sit. Webster.' |
Date: | s. xiii |
Ownership: | Lord de Grey, Wrest Park (cf. Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep. 2. 4b). Sold at Baroness Luca's sale (Wrest Park Library), Sotheby 21 June 1922 lot 572. In 1972 it belonged to bookseller Colin Franklin of Culham, near Abingdon. |
Notes: |
Formerly Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W.34. Webster was a monk of Pipewell at the dissolution. |