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Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Iesu Christi — Woburn, Bedfordshire. Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Woburn, Bedfordshire. Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin.
Location: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Shelfmark: 2.1.17 (pr. bk.)
Author/Title: Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Iesu Christi
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:

(fol. 1r) 'Liber Fratris Ricardi Hopeworthe Monachi Monasterii beate Marie semper Virginis de Woburnia/ quem quicumque ab ipso vel a Monasterio predicti alienaverit Anathema fiat. Amen [monogram] Anno domini 1537o.'

Date: 1509, Paris (B. Rembolt)
Notes:

Hopeworth received a dispensation to hold a benefice with charge of habit in 1537 (Chambers, p. 145).

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