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Sir Nigel Loring, Order of the Garter, c.1380
Liber vite of St Alban's Abbey, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D VII, f.105v
Cotton MS Nero D VII
Date: 1380-c 1540
Title: The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey (‘the Golden Book of St Albans’)
Content
This manuscript contains the names and portraits of benefactors to the Abbey of St Albans with details of their gifts. The preface states that the register was established as part of the grant of confraternity set up by Abbot Thomas and was to be kept on the Abbey's high altar (f. 2r-v).
The manuscript is dated based on a rubric for a list of ‘the names of monks living in our monastery at the time of the compilation of this book, namely in 1380’
British Library, Cotton MS Nero D VII
Provenance: St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Nero D.vii
Title: Liber vite
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Date: s. xiv ex.
Ownership:
Given to Cotton by Viscount St. Albans in 1623.
Belonged earlier to Mr Coxe of Beaumond by St Albans, see V. H. Galbraith, The St Albans Chronicle (1937), p. xxxvi.
Referenced on p.47, English Medieval Knight 1300-1400 by Christopher Gravett (Author), Graham Turner (Illustrator)
Sir Nigel Loring, who died in 1386, wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter embellished with garters. (By permission of the British Library, MS Cotton Nero D VII, f.105v)