Book: Advocates Library, Abbotsford MS B3 (Middle English Legenda Aurea (trans. Bokenham) and Saints Lives from Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women)

Created c.1450-1475


Ownership Details

Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, Ownership Possible (c.1450-1495) by Will.

Bridget of York, Ownership Possible (1495 - c.1507) by Will.



Bibliography

Laynesmith, J.L. "'To Please...Dame Cecely that in Latyn hath litell intellect': Books and the Duchess of York," in The Fifteenth Century XV: Writing, Records, and Rhetoric, ed. Linda Clark (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2017), 37-56.: 48-49, 55

Horobin, Simon. "A Manuscript Found in the Library of Abbotsford House and the Lost Legendary of Osbern Bokenham," English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 14 (2007): 132-64.: 150-151