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Psalterium — Preston, Yorkshire. Hospital of St Sepulchre.


Provenance: Preston, Yorkshire. Hospital of St Sepulchre.
Location: Public Library, New York (NY, USA)
Shelfmark: Spencer Collection 2
Author/Title: Psalterium
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
  • Evidence:
  • Kalendar for September
  • Evidence:
  • 'Obitus domini Ade de la Twyere'
Notes on evidence:

Provenance inferred from obits of De la Twyere family, founders of the Hospital.

H. Y. Thompson, Cat. 2nd Series, no. 56; Illustrations of 100 MSS. 4, pls. 42–46.

Cf. de Ricci, Census, 2. 1335, no. 2, and Spencer Collection Catalogue (revised ed. 1928), pp. 9–10.

Date: s. xiv in.
Ownership:

'The Ladie Middelton's gift to me T. Fairfax [= Lord Fairfax, s. xvii]'.

Ashburnham Appendix no. 31.

H. Yates Thompson no. 56.

Sold (Sotheby lot 38) 23 March 1920.