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Psalterium — Wherwell, Hampshire. Abbey of Holy Cross, of Benedictine nuns.


Provenance: Wherwell, Hampshire. Abbey of Holy Cross, of Benedictine nuns.
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge
Shelfmark: McClean 45
Author/Title: Psalterium
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Wherwell is mentioned in added obits and notes. "... fundatrices huius monasterii Wheruelle" on leaf facing the beginning of Psalms.

Date: s. xiii–xiv
Ownership:

"Thys is Symon Choppares boke off Oddyam ..." (s. xv).

Phillipps 2635.

Sale Sotheby's, May 1897, lot 622. Bought by McClean from Quaritch.

Quaritch cat. 176 (1898), no. 48; 211 (1902), no. 56.