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Nicholaus de Lyra (Isaiah–Maccabees) — Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew.


Provenance: Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew.
Location: Dulwich College , London
Shelfmark: A. 3. f.3
Author/Title: Nicholaus de Lyra (Isaiah–Maccabees)
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:

'Liber fratris Rogeri Byrd ex dono dompni Roberti Kirkton Abbatis anno domini Mo CCCCCo xxvjo.

Roger Bird was one of the last monks of the abbey and signed in several books.

(Medieval binding. Border formed by a diaper stamp not in Oldham; the fringed foliage stamp within the panel is Oldham's I.2.)

Date: Nuremberg, 1497
Printed Book