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Preces; poems (in English) — Bordesley, Worcestershire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Bordesley, Worcestershire. Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Add. 37787
Author/Title: Preces; poems (in English)
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)
  • Evidence:
  • John of Northwood inscription
Notes on evidence:

'Iste liber constat Iohanni Norpewode monacho . qui ipsum habuerit. vel qui in eo
legerit habeat eum karitatiue specialiter recommendatum in missa sua priuata commemoracione. vel saltem oret pro anima eius . Et quicumque hunc librum ab eo alienauerit absque eius licencia: malediccionem dei incurrat . fiat fiat. Amen.' (fol. 183r).

Inscription, with illuminated border, recording the first owner's noviciate: 'Anno domini Milesimo CCC. octogesimo sexto. In die sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli [26 May]. Intrauit domum probacionis beate Marie de Bordesley frater Johannes Norþewode, quem in uia religionis assumpte deuotissime custodiat trinitas sancta nunc et in perpetuum. amen.' (fol. 182v).

Original binding of oak boards covered with red vellum.
Contents of the book: Link to the Book Site
Date: s. xiv ex
Ownership:

'Iste lyber pertinet ad me mi lady Peyto. Amen yt est yta fyat amen so be heyte... by the, gefte of d[ame?] Goodyth Peyto thy booke Goody Thokmarton' (fol. 2r, s. xvi early).

Goditha, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, was wife of Edward Peto (d. 1487) and mother of Cardinal William Peto.

T. S. Walker.

Lord Amherst of Hackney, no. 23. Sold Sothebys 25 March 1909, lot 643.