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


Provenance: Wherwell, Hampshire. Abbey of Holy Cross, of Benedictine nuns.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Additional 27866
Author/Title: Psalterium cum Kalendario, etc.
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)
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
  • Evidence:
  • Ownership inscription
Notes on evidence:

"Iste Liber constat domine Iohanna [recte: Iohannae] Stretford monasterii Werwellensis sancti Cruce [recte: Crucis]" (fol. 131v). Original inscription in good red capitals (? s. xv), but a name erased and "Iohanne Stretford" written above.

Date: s. xiv
Ownership:

"Wm Cole A: M: ex dono rev. Primates Knapp, Rectoris de Shenley in Comitatu Buck 1764.†" (fol. 5r; also his bookplate fol. 4v).

Bookplate of Cecil D. Wray A.M. F.C.C. Manchester (fol. 4r), s. xix.

"Purchased [for the Museum] of Messrs. Boone 13 June 1868" (fol. 5v).