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Vitas patrum — Langley, Norfolk. Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.


Provenance: Langley, Norfolk. Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary the Virgin.
Location: Mrs A. Pedley, Cambridge
Author/Title: Vitas patrum
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:

On flyleaf is 'Iohannes Dechingham de langley Canonicus Regularis' and 'Iohannes Dechingham de Claxton dedit istum librum ad \\Sister// Elizbeatam de Rockelande'. Elsewhere in the book Dechingham is called vicar of Claxton.

Date: Lyon, 1512