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Bonaventura — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Franciscan convent.


Provenance: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Franciscan convent.
Location: Balliol College, Oxford
Shelfmark: 133
Author/Title: Bonaventura
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:

'Iste liber constat fratri Thome Trumpyton ordinis minorum sacre theologie professoris, precium viij marc' (fol. 1v).

Date: s. xiv in
Ownership:

Has cauciones (Cambridge) of Hugh Damlett (afterwards master of Pembroke and rector of St Peter-upon-Cornhill, London) dated 1435 and 1438, and of John Clynt (cf. Peterhouse MSS 77, 255, 263 and Gonville and Caius MS 510) dated 1441. Later belonged to Thomas Trumpyngton STP, OFM (who in 1465 was chaplain of the house of Poor Clares at Denny, Cambs, and owned BL MS Cotton Cleopatra C.ix fols. 63–165 and perhaps Vatican MS Ottobon. lat. 352).

Given to Balliol by William Gray, bishop of Ely (d. 1478).