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Liber thesauri occulti, etc. — Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.


Provenance: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Harley 4025
Author/Title: Liber thesauri occulti, etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Liber monachorum sancti edmundi de empcione fratris henr' de Kirk' in quo continentur subscripta videlicet. . .'

'S.97' (fols. 1r and 2r).

Date: s. xiv
Pressmark: S.97
Ownership:

Kirkestede notes that fols. 2–80 (six quires) were bought 'de executoribus W. de elueden', prec' xl d.' (fol. 13r), i.e. Walter de Elveden, vicar-general of the bishop of Norwich, d. by 1360 (Emden, BRUC 210–11).

Purchased by Harley from James Anderson, 19 November 1725 (Diary of Humfrey Wanley, ed. Wright, 394).