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Walter Hilton — Syon, Middlesex. Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget.


Provenance: Syon, Middlesex. Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Lat. th. f. 20
Author/Title: Walter Hilton
Type of evidence: inferred evidence
Notes on evidence:

Identifiable as M.95 in Betson's catalogue, on the basis of contents and second folio.

Medieval binding. Marks of a title-label on the back cover. There are no tags, surviving labels, or other signs of Syon ownership or use.

Date: s. xv
Medieval Catalogue: SS1.828

Further details of medieval catalogue: SS1. BRIGITTINES: Syon: Registrum of the library of the Brethren, c. 1500-c. 1524
Ownership:

John Trotter Brockett FSA (sale, Sotheby's, 16 June 1843, lot 689).

Canon Greenwell.

J. Raine, York, January 1862.

Sotheby's, 15–16 March 1907, lot 350. Bought by Mr Merton from 'H. A. Selden' (i.e. R. B. Haselden of the Huntington Library), bookseller of Sicilian Ave, London, on 1 July 1913.