Founders and benefactors book of Tewkesbury abbey

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MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2

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Founders and benefactors book of Tewkesbury abbey, in Latin, on vellum, containing:

(fols. 8-40) chronicle of the abbey's founders and benefactors, with coloured portraits;
(fols. 2-5, 42v-45v) extracts from a narrative cartulary of the abbey, partly in imitation 13th-cent. script.

Described by C. H. B. Hudson in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 33 (1910), 60-6. Pächt & Alexander iii, no. 1177.

Dates

Creation: early 16th century

Extent

49 Leaves

Language of Materials

Latin

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2, fols. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 17975

Additional Description

Abstract

Founders and benefactors book of Tewkesbury abbey, in Latin, on vellum, early 16th century.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical details unknown.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, no. 54301.

Custodial History

Made for Joannes E[wis]ham (erased inscription on fol. iv); owned by Sir Edward Grevell of Milcote (d. 1559); given by Robert Spencer, Lord Spencer (1570-1627) to Mary Fane, Baroness Ie Despencer; booklabel of John Fane, 17th Earl of Westmorland, 1857.