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Sermo ad clerum, etc. [P. Poitiers, Compendium] (binding and endleaf only) — Syon, Middlesex. Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget.


Provenance: Syon, Middlesex. Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget.
Location: University Library , Cambridge
Shelfmark: Additional 4081
Author/Title: Sermo ad clerum, etc. [P. Poitiers, Compendium] (binding and endleaf only)
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:

Label under horn of 2nd cover: 'Sermo ad clerum Compendium iusticie commutatiue cum aliis. 2o fo. venerunt. Raynolde' (letters underlined are red).

Not in Betson's catalogue. Richard Reynolds gave many books to Syon, and this label is in the typical form. The contents have no connection with the binding, apart from fol. 17 which was the end pastedown. They were probably inserted in s. xix. The binding has a double panel and a frame of a Fleur de Lys roll (= Oldham no. 272, and p. 77).

Rebacked binding, temp Hen. VIII.

Date: s. xiii
Medieval Catalogue: SS1.880

Further details of medieval catalogue: SS1. BRIGITTINES: Syon: Registrum of the library of the Brethren, c. 1500-c. 1524