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Iacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea — Westminster, Middlesex. Royal collegiate chapel of St Stephen.


Provenance: Westminster, Middlesex. Royal collegiate chapel of St Stephen.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Stowe 49
Author/Title: Iacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
Notes on evidence:

'Liber capelle sancti Stephani infra palacium Westm' de dono domini Roberti de Elham quondam dicte capelle canonici qui viiio die Marcii anno domini mo cccmo lxvo cursum vite presentis consummavit ibidem, vite perhennis bravium percepturus' (fol. 2r), s. xiv.

Date: s. xiv
Ownership:

[Sir] Roger Twysden bought of Stephen Potts, bookseller, Aldersgate St., 1626 (fol. 245)

Ashburnham.

Cf. Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep. 8. 3. 26 (no. 16).

Notes:

The name of the scribe Alanus occurs in a verse at the end (printed in catalogue).