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JCOL/Q/G/7
Title
Ordinale Premonstratensium
Date(s)
- 1475-1500 (Creation)
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1 volume 8 x 5+ in., 143 ff; 30 lines to a page paper
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Given by Thomas Man, 1685. On f. 1 is written: Iste liber constat Johanni Tanfyld canonici de skyrpynes. This "skyrpynes" is possibly the lazar-house at Shireburn, near Durham.
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Scope and content
A Premonstratensian ordinal; M. R. James's no. 55. There is an explanatory preface. Two parchment flyleaves at either end have been cut from a roll which had been taken round to various monasteries (in the Midlands and northern England) to solicit their prayers for William Yorke, abbot of the house to which the book belonged.
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Microfilm available.