Psalterium — Harrold, Bedfordshire. Priory of St Peter, of Augustinian nuns.
| Provenance: | Harrold, Bedfordshire. Priory of St Peter, of Augustinian nuns. |
| Location: | Wormsley Library, Wormsley |
| Author/Title: | Psalterium |
| Type of evidence: | c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc. |
| Notes on evidence: | Harrold charters added on fols. 143v–145v, and a copy of a letter dated 1415 of Emma the prioress is added at the front. |
| Date: | s. xii ex. |
| Ownership: | With the 'Obitus Simonis sacerdotis qui fecit librum hunc' (4 July), apparently of Christ Church, Canterbury; Harrold priory by s. xiii 1; Sir James Ware (1594–1666); Henry Hyde (1638–1709), 2nd earl of Clarendon; Thomas Tenison ((1636–1715), archbishop of Canterbury; James Brydges (1673–1744), 1st duke of Chandos; his sale at Cock's, 30 March 1747, lot 2295; Andrew Gifford (1700–1784), Baptist minister; bequeathed by him to Bristol Baptist College, their Z.c.23; ; sold at Sothebys, 13 December 1976, lot 56, with plate and facsimile of Simon's obit; described in Ker, MMBL (as belonging to Bristol); listed in Supplement as 'London, Private Collection 1', i.e. the British Rail Pension Fund, whose western medieval manuscripts were acquired en bloc in May 1989 by Paul Getty (d.2003). |