Syon Abbey (Bridgettine)

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Date:	1278-2000
Places:	South Brent, Devon Syon, Middlesex
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Other monastic orders
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C69853 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O50861 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1299-16th cent: charters and deeds (1299-16th cent), incl restoration of abbey (1556/7), leases (16th cent), survey of manor of Isleworth (15th cent)	Alnwick Castle	A.XV.3a, D.XIV.1-6, E.XV.1-2, M.XIII.1	NRA 836 Percy
2	15th cent: deeds 1428, legal papers 1440s-1460s and accounts 1441	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	KCE, SYO	See M Stansfield, Guide to the Muniments of King's College, Cambridge (1988)
3	1499: notarial transcript of papal bulls Martin V-Sixtus IV	Bibliotheek van de Universiteit Gent (Ghent University Library)	MS 604	See Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p18
4	c1500-1535: the Rules of Syon Abbey	The London Archives: City of London	CLC/207	See Ker, Medieval MSS in British Libraries, pp243-4
5	1421-64: extracts from parliamentary records rel to granting of the manor of Isleworth out of the estate of the Duchy of Cornwall 9 Henry V and 3 Edward IV	Huntington Library	EL/2558,11614	NRA 24601 Egerton (Bridgwater)
6	c1278-16th cent: court rolls of manor of Isleworth	The London Archives: City of London		NRA 836 Percy
7	15th cent: Sussex accounts 1454-5	North Yorkshire County Record Office	ZJX/3/13/1, ZJX/3/21	NRA 33897 See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [12c]; North Yorks RO Guide
8	c1460-80: Processional of Bridgettine use	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add MS 8885	See Accessions to Repositories 1991
9	1481: comptus roll recording rents and expenditure	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	AU 1	NRA 34921
10	15th cent: requiem offices	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 3774	See Annual Return 1995
11	16th cent: valors of possessions temp Henry VIII	The National Archives	SC 12/19/31, SC 12/22/29
12	1541: letters patent granting site to Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset	Longleat House		See HMC 58 Bath V, p376
13	16th cent: prayerbook of a nun, a psalter and a further book of prayers	Lambeth Palace Library		See Annual review 1992
14	15th-16th cent: manuscripts formerly belonging to, incl Rule and Revelations of St Bridget (15th cent), Processional	Cambridge University: St John's College Library	MSS 11,69,109,139,219,?131	See James, Catalogue of Library of St Johns College
15	14th-15th cent: manuscripts formerly owned by	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 612, 632, 993, 2387, 3432	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)
16	early 16th cent: collection rel to St Bridget and other saints	Lichfield Cathedral Library	MS Lich 52	NRA 19287 Lichfield L
17	1400-2000: theological and music ms collections and papers of the nuns of South Brent, Devon	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	MS 262	NRA 10656
18	1900-2000: papers on the book collections and reading habits of the nuns of South Brent, Devon	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	MS 265
19	16th-20th cent: estate, financial and personal papers	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	MS 389	See Annual Return 2011
20	20th cent: additional books and papers	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	MS 389	See Annual Return 2014
21	20th cent: photographs and corresp	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	EUL MS 389