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Vitas patrum — Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Kenelm.


Provenance: Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Benedictine abbey of St Kenelm.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Rawlinson Q.d.12 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Vitas patrum
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:

"Liber Dompni Ricardi K[idderminster] Abbatis Monasterii dive Marie virginis sanctique Kenelmi regis et martiris de Winchelcomba ordinis beatissimi patris benedicti" (at foot of title page), s. xvi. R. K. abbot 1488–1531.

Date: 1502, Lyon (J. Hugnetan; N. Wolff)
Ownership:

"Suum cuique Tho. Hearne 1722.   MS. Vol. 173   E. Pr. 129".

Notes:

Inscription by Thomas Hearne on front flyleaf.

Former Bodl. shelfmark: 4o E .i. 14. Linc.

There are many annotations (s. xvi) throughout the book.

 

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