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Biblia (praefigitur Kalendarium et Indiculus lectionum ex epistolis et evangeliis) — Witham, Somerset. Charterhouse of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Witham, Somerset. Charterhouse of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: Cathedral , Durham
Shelfmark: A.iv.30
Author/Title: Biblia (praefigitur Kalendarium et Indiculus lectionum ex epistolis et evangeliis)
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

"Iste Liber est domus beate marie de Witham ordinis cart' ex dono magistri Willelmi Loryng".

The MS. is described by T. Hearne as "Ordo lectionum in festis sanctorum. Iste liber est domus beate Marie de Witham ordinis cartus. ex dono magistri Willelmi Loryng" among the MSS. of Lord Bulstrode Whitlock (Collections, 2 (O.H.S.), pp. 133, 135).

Date: s. xiii
Ownership:

Richard Winwood. 1655.

Henry Bland, Dean of Durham, presented it to the Cathedral 1729.

Notes:

Probably written for the Dominicans of Besançon; presented to Witham by William Loryng, see Charles Clay in Antiq. Journal 11, p. 312.

Loryng died 1416.