Item 1 - Book of the Vestry

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SJLM/2/3/2/1

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GB 1859 SJLM/2/3/2/1

Title

Book of the Vestry

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  • 1508-1509 (Creation)

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1 item, leather and paper

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An inventory of chapel & other household plate, vestments and service books priced and marked with a note by John Fisher in the margin of their destination. Many of the items were intended for Christ’s and St John’s Colleges. Folio 60 lists the obligations due to Lady Margaret at her death.

The headings are:
Copes, vestments, aulter clothes, palles, and canapes, curtayns for the aulter, vailes and banerclothes, corporas, couchers and other books…. All the books to cristes collage…, masse books, graylles, processyonalles, alter clothes of lynyn, surplesses….

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A leather bound book with skin thongs in a criss-cross pattern on the binding; named `the book of the Revestrie'

Finding aids

A potted summary of the folios is available in the Blue Folder for D91. The item is listed under its previous reference number D91.15.

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The volume could possibly pertain to the chapel & household at Colyweston.

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D91.15

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  • Shelf: SJLM/2/3/2/1