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Liber sextus: MS 1-1955

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Liber sextus

Maker(s)

Author: Pope Boniface VIII

Categories

Notes

History note: Owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), legal historian, with his signature on f. 6, partially cut away. The name 'Johnne Williams' is written in a late 17th or early 18th cent. hand on blank page (f. 5). The date '1498' has been added in a more sprawling, slightly later hand, and both the name and the date have been crossed out and scribbled over. Formerly in the family collection of Francis Edward Norris, no. M 10. There may be some connection with John Williams, Baron Williams of Thame (1500?- 1559) whose daughter Margaret married Sir Henry Norris, afterwards Baron Norris of Rycote. Bought from Louis W. Bondy by T.S. Blakeney in September 1953, and given by him to the Museum in 1955.

Place(s) associated

  • England ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1953) by Blakeney, T. S.

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 1-1955
Primary reference Number: 239263
Project ID: 3436
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Audit data

Created: Friday 15 November 2019 Updated: Monday 24 August 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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