Breviarium — Walsingham, Norfolk. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin.
Provenance: | Walsingham, Norfolk. Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin. |
Location: | Keble College, Oxford |
Author/Title: | Breviarium |
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 domino Ricardo Vowell priori de Walsingham' (several times, in several hands, on flyleaves). |
Date: | s. xv ex. |
Ownership: | Wm Bragge of Sheffield and Birmingham 1876. Sold (7 july (June?) 1876, Sotheby's, lot 43) to Messrs. Ellis & White. Sold to Sir Thomas Brooke; cat. of MSS. and pr. bks. (1891) 1. 67. Bequeathed by canon C. E. Brooke to Keble (see W.L.L. Sandell, 'The Walsingham Breviary', Downside Rev. 57 (July 1939) 373–88). Exhibited at the National Exhibition of works of art, Leeds, 1868, no. 557. |
Notes: | Augustinian features. St Withburga (Ely saint) in litanies. R. Vowell was prior from 1514 to dissolution. See W.L.L. Sandell, 'The Walsingham Breviary', Downside Rev. 57 (July 1939) 373–88. |