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Lady Margaret Hall MS. Borough 18

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Gregory IX, Pope, Papal Bull addressed to the Abbott and Monks of the Benedictine Abbey at Holme, diocese of Norwich

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 244 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in brown ink in a papal documentary script

Seal(s):

Original lead papal seal attached by silks.

History

Origin: 17 May 1233 ; Italy (Papal Curia),

Provenance and Acquisition

Holme Abbey, Norfolk

Sotheby's 16 July 1957, lot 453

Bernard Quaritch

Donated to Lady Margaret Hall by Cynthia Mabel Borough (b.1899)

Record Sources

Description based on a valuation report by Jonathan Cooper, Jan 2016

Last Substantive Revision

2022-02: First online publication.