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Bernardus Cassinensis — 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 5388
Author/Title: Bernardus Cassinensis
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:

'Robertus myldenhale' (fol. 1v, who was prior in 1504).

Date: s. xv
Ownership:

Robert Myldenhale, s. xvi in.

Sir Clement Heigham (b. in or before 1500, d. 1571), judge and speaker of the House of Commons (as also Harley 4968 and 5334, 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).