Medical treatises (in English) — 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 , Glasgow, Scotland |
| Shelfmark: | Hunterian 509 |
| Author/Title: | Medical treatises (in English) |
| Type of evidence: | d: evidence of dicta probatoria, usually a secundo folio |
| Notes on evidence: | Visible in Betson's catalogue; second folio is a match. Rebound. John Sperhawk, who signed the book, bequeathed 'to the house of Syon where Master Thomas Westhaw presides' the book of medicine he wrote with his own hand (Somerset Medieval Wills 1383–1500, ed. F. W. Weaver, Somerset Rec. Soc. 16 (1901), 224). Westhawe is recorded in the catalogue as the donor of the book to the abbey. |
| Date: | s. xv |
| Pressmark: | B.40. |
| Medieval Catalogue: | SS1.117 Further details of medieval catalogue: SS1. BRIGITTINES: Syon: Registrum of the library of the Brethren, c. 1500-c. 1524 |
| Ownership: | 'Liber magistri Iohannis Sperhawk' (fol. 171v) [a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge]. Also on same page 'Sper[hawk] sed post obitum \Sperhawk/ M. th' Westraw si \supervivat/' [Thomas Westhaugh, donor to Pembroke College and to Syon]. |