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W. Hilton, Scala perfeccionis in the Latin transl. of Thomas Fyshlake, etc. — Sheen, Surrey. Charterhouse of Jesus of Bethlehem.


Provenance: Sheen, Surrey. Charterhouse of Jesus of Bethlehem.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Lat. th. e. 26
Author/Title: W. Hilton, Scala perfeccionis in the Latin transl. of Thomas Fyshlake, etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

Erased inscr. (10 lines) on fol. ii verso (s. xv):

'[...] Iste liber pertinet [cancelled] [dom]us Ihesu de bethleem

iuxta schen ordinis cart' [...] ad c[...] et [...]ionem [?]

[...] et monachi sancti edmundi regis'

et [martinis] [de bu]ry tempore [...] patre Iohanne Ing[il]b[y]

dicte domus de Schen per me [...]

[...] dicta domo de Schen anno domini 1488o [?] quem ...

[...]ciis [?] remittere [...]etur [...] at [...] 

[...] se [...] poterit retinere aut alienare absque

consensu Prioris dicte domus de Schen ‘tunc temporis’ existentis. S[i]

contra fecerit s[it] anathema maranatha [?] Ihesus amen.'

John Ingilby was prior 1479–1480.

 At end, in red (s. xv): 'Liber Domus de Bethleem ordinis Cartusien' de Schene. quem scripsit domnus Iohannes fferiby monachus sacerdos et professus eiusdem domus ad honorem dei omnipotentis. sancte marie uirginis. beati Nicholai confessoris sancte Katerine martiris. et omnium sanctorum et in remissione peccatorum suorum. Amen.'

Date: s. xv
Ownership:

Christopher Toottell (c. 1600).

'Ex dono Abelis de Sainte Marthe domini de Corbenille in suprema vectigalium Curia senatoris', s. xvii ex.

'Datum huic Monasterio Sanctissimae trinitatis Celestinorum de Marcoussiaco. 1691.'; all on fol. ii verso.

(fols. ii verso–iii recto) 'ad vsum Fratris Laurentii Reyner Congreg. Anglicanae ordinis Sancti Benedicti', and 'Monasterii D. Laurentii de Dei custodia', both in the same 17th-cent. hand.

Obtained by Rosenthal from Portugal.

Notes:

Rebound.