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Proprium sanctorum — Winchester, Hampshire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun.


Provenance: Winchester, Hampshire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Rawlinson C.489
Author/Title: Proprium sanctorum
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:

"Ad laudem et honorem gloriose virginis ac martiris Margarete, ego frater Willelmus Vincent, monachus monasteri [sic] Sancti Swithuni Wyntonie, hos duos libros, scilicet quoddam Portiphorium cum suo Diurnali sibi simili, fieri fecit et manibus meis propriis conscripsi, a. d. M CCCCo XXo quarto, quos libros, Portiphorium suple cum suo diurnali, volo ut post obitum meum habeat sacrista monasterii supradicti ... vel alius eiusdem loci monachus quem sacrista duxerit eliqendum pro usu predictorum librorum habendo, quamdiu ocupans vixerit in humanis, et quod prefati duo libri transeant de uno ad alium" (fol. 25v).

Date: 1424