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Vita S. Modwenne — Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Modwenna.


Provenance: Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Modwenna.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Cleopatra A. II
Author/Title: Vita S. Modwenne
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:

'Ex coniunctione dompni Willelmi Edys monasterii Beate Marie sancteque Modwenne uirginis de Burton super Trent monachi dum esset studens Oxonie anno domini 1517'.

Date: s. xii