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Pictor in carmine — Brecon, Brecknockshire. Benedictine priory of St John the Evangelist.


Provenance: Brecon, Brecknockshire. Benedictine priory of St John the Evangelist.
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge
Shelfmark: 269
Author/Title: Pictor in carmine
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:

Inside front cover: 'Hunc librum compsuit Robertus Manwood Sacrae Theologie doctor anno domini 1521'.

At end: 'per Robertum Manwood 1514'.

On fol. iir: 'notatus locis sacrarum litterarum per Robertum Manwode doctorem sacre theologie priorem breconie et hoc scriptum est anno domini 1521 mense octobris priori anno ordinacionis suo per eum'.

The references in the tables of chapters at the front are added in Manwood's hand. For Robert Manwood, monk of Battle, see Hereford Cathedral, H.2.7 (pr. bk).

Date: s. xiii in
Pressmark: A.xii; M.35
Ownership:

Andrew Jenour.

Given by J. R. McClean in 1908.