MS. Hatton 18
Summary Catalogue no.: 4109
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The text is incomplete through the loss of the first leaf and begins 'That 3e han most of usage | That can euery man undyrstande'
Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Iste liber pertinet ... ad me Bartholomew Swalow', s. xvi in. (MLGB3)
Denny or Denney, Cambridgeshire, Abbey of St James and St Leonard, of Franciscan nuns: 'Iste liber est venerabilis domine dompne Elesabeth Throgkmorton abbatisse de Denney teste Thoma Gylberd in eodem monastio olim manenti' (fol. 210v), s. xvi in. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)). For Throckmorton (d. 1547) see D. N. Bell, What Nuns Read (1995), ppp. 134-5.
'Hic fuit frater Johannes[sic] Fakun': presumably the vice-warden of the Franciscans, who signed the surrender of Denny (Bell, ibid.)
Christopher, first Baron Hatton (d. 1670)
Bought in 1671 by the Bodleian through the London bookseller Robert Scot (b. in or before 1632, d. 1709/1710); see Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 801
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-05-13: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)