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Breviarium — 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 5334
Author/Title: Breviarium
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'Liber monasterii Sancti Edmundi regis et martiris de Bury de dono dompni Iohannis fenyngham eiusdem loci monachi cuius anime propicietur deus amen' (fol. 94r, in red at end of main text).

Donor's name on erasure.

Date: s. xiv
Ownership:

Sir ClementHeigham (b. in or before 1500, d. 1571), judge and speaker of the House of Commons (as Harley 4968, 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).