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J. Wallensis — 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: All Souls College , Oxford
Shelfmark: i.12.15
Author/Title: J. Wallensis
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:

'Edys Wyll'm' (first pastedown); 'Ex emptione dompni Wyllelmy Edys monachi dum esset cellararius, anno partus virginei .17. supra mille quingentos' (on title-page).

William Edys was later dean of Burton college from 1541 until the dissolution. His inscription also in BL Cotton Cleopatra A.ii and the other printed books at All Souls.

Date: Lyon, A.D. 1511
Ownership:

David Pole (d. 1568), bishop of Peterborough ('Liber collegii omnium sanctorum Oxon. ex dono reuerend. d. Dauidis Pole episcopi Petriburgens' huius coll. socii').

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