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Cilium oculi sacerdotis, 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 4968
Author/Title: Cilium oculi sacerdotis, etc.
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Liber monasterii sancti Edmundi de empcione I. Tymworth abbatis. O.28' (on flyleaf).

'Liber monachorum Sancti Edmundi. O.28' (fol. 1r, at top).

Binding leaf of s. xii.

Date: s. xv
Pressmark: O.28
Ownership:

Sir Clement Heigham (b. in or before 1500, d. 1571), judge and speaker of the House of Commons (as also Harley 5334, 5388 and 5442, from Bury).

Acquired by Harley 5 November 1723, from estate of John Battely (d. 1708), archdeacon of Sudbury and canon of Canterbury (son of an apothecary of Bury).