Psalterium — London, Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Francis, without Aldgate, of Franciscan nuns.
| Provenance: | London, Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Francis, without Aldgate, of Franciscan nuns. |
| Location: | Turnbull Library, Wellington (NZ) |
| Shelfmark: | MSR-01 |
| Author/Title: | Psalterium |
| Type of evidence: | e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution |
| Notes on evidence: | Given by Beterice Carneburgh, the donation inscription asking the nuns to pray for the names entered as obits in the calendar (fol. 2r): 'Memorandum that this Sawter was gevyn by Beterice Carneburgh unto Dame Grace Centurio to have it to her for terme of her lyfe and aftir her discesse to Remayne unto what syster of the meneres that it shall plese the seme grace to gyf it not to be gevyn awey solde nor lent but onely to the meneres, they to pray perpetually for the sawles named in this present Sawter'. |
| Date: | s. xv in |
| Ownership: | On fol. 201v in a 16th-cent, italic hand: 'Nouton in Nor: one myle from Danitrier / either to William Carter, or William Cartwright, Clearlie of the kitchin: uppon one of the Easter Holydaies'. Bernard Edward, 12th duke of Norfolk (d. 1842). Armorial bookplate of J. G. Leeming, and a faint erased pencil inscription apparently signed by Leeming and dated 1889. Later belonged to Mrs Harvey Staunton of London and was lot 202 in her sale, Sotheby's 27 July 1925; purchased by Albert Clemas and sold by him to the British and Foreign Bible Society of New Zealand in 1933; deposited on permanent loan to Turnbull Library by the Bible Society of New Zealand in 1978. on permanent loan by the Bible Society in New Zealand, 1978. |