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Tabulae astronomicae, etc. — Bristol, Gloucestershire. Dominican convent.


Provenance: Bristol, Gloucestershire. Dominican convent.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Digby 72
Author/Title: Tabulae astronomicae, etc.
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:

'Universis et singulis Christi fidelibus presentes litteras inspecturis Iohannes Hylsey prior ordinis fratrum predicatorum Bristolie salutem' (fol. 4v, otherwise blank except for scribbles). He was prior in 1533 (BRUO 1540, 289–90).

Date: s. xv
Ownership:

Thomas Allen (1540?–1632).

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665).