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N. de Lyra — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Franciscan convent.


Provenance: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Franciscan convent.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Add. 9831, fols. 2–12
Author/Title: N. de Lyra
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:

'Istum librum emit fr' Rogerus de Wychingham de Elemosinis amicorum suorum prec' j marc' orate pro eius anima et pro quibus tenetur. . .'; 'Istum librum emit fr' Ioh' Walsham magr' de Fratre Rogero de Wychingham pro vna marc' et tantum dedit pro illo oxon' ex parte predicti fratris Rogeri' (fol. 2r, s. xiv). [The named friars were connected with the Cambridge convent; see Emden, BRUC.]

Notes:

Add. 9831 fols. 2–12 are endleaves of a now missing MS of Nicholaus de Lyra on Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1–4 Kings, 1–2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.