Breviarium (Horae, etc.) — Shaftesbury, Dorset. Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Edward, of Benedictine nuns.
| Provenance: | Shaftesbury, Dorset. Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Edward, of Benedictine nuns. |
| Location: | Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge |
| Shelfmark: | 2–1957 |
| Author/Title: | Breviarium (Horae, 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: | 'Iste liber pertinet domine Alicie Champnys moniali monasterii Shastonie quem dicta Alicia emit pro summa decem solidorum de domino Richard Marshall rectore ecclesie perochialis Sancti Rumbaldi de Shastina predicta'. |
| Date: | s. xvi in. (c. 1510) |
| Notes: | de Ricci, Census, 1. 2 gives the above inscription and dates it c. 1550. He also says that the book was written in England 'for an abbess whose initial was E., probably Elizabeth Shelford abbess of Shaftesbury, who ded before 1529.' |