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Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory : The Book of Margery Kempe

'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is considered to be an early copy [of The Book of Margery Kempe] of the original written by Margery's second amanuensis; it was owned and extensively annotated by the Carthusians at Mount Grace Priory in Yorkshire. The most prolific of these annotators, using red ink and in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century hand, has inscribed both in the margins and between the lines, a lively, fascinating and fully-engaged reading of the Book.'

Century: 1450-1499 / 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory     Manuscript: Unknown

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