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11. Add Ch 19798

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Title:
Grant of Bishop Lyfing of Worcester (d. 1046) to Earcytel
Scope & Content:
Bishop Lyfing grants a lease, for three lives, of two hides (cassati) at Tapenhall in North Claines, Worcestershire, and two hagas in Worcester, to Earcytel, with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester; dated 1038, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 1393). Middle portion of a tripartite chirogra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1038
Extent:

Parchment leaf

12. Add Ch 19799

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Title:
Grant of Bishop Lyfing of Worcester (d. 1046) to Æthelric, his thegn
Scope & Content:
Bishop Lyfing grants a lease, for three lives, of two hides at Armscote in Tredington, Warwickshire, to Æthelric, his thegn, in return for a money payment; dated 1042 (Sawyer, no. 1394). Upper portion of a chirograph, with ‘CYROGRAPHVM’ inscribed along the lower edge. Endorsed in a contemporar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1042
Extent:

Parchment leaf

13. Add Ch 19801

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Title:
Grant of Bishop Ealdred (d. 1069) to Dodda, minister
Scope & Content:
Bishop Ealdred grants a lease, for life, of two hides (mansae) and a yardland at Bredons Norton, Worcestershire, to Dodda, minister, with reversion to the bishopric; dated 1058, in Latin and English with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 1405). Lower portion of a chirograph, with ‘CYROGRAVVM’ written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1058
Extent:

Parchment leaf

14. Add Ch 19802

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Title:
Writ of King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) concerning the monk Wulfstan
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to the monk Wulfstan the bishopric of Worcester; dated 1062 (Sawyer, no. 1156). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Edwardi regis.’
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1062
Extent:

Parchment leaf

15. Add Ch 28657

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Title:
Confirmation of King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) concerning gifts made by Earl Leofric and Godgifu
Scope & Content:
King Edward confirms the gifts made by Earl Leofric and Godgifu (Godiva) to Abbot Leofwine and the brethren at Coventry minster; spurious, in English and Latin (Sawyer, no. 1098).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

16. Add Ch 33686

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Title:
Four grants to Ramsey Abbey
Scope & Content:
King Edgar (943/4–975) confirms and grants to Ramsey Abbey privileges of land at Ramsey, Upwood with Raveley, Hemingford, Sawtry, Stukeley, Brington and Old Weston, Huntingdonshire; Hilgay and Walsoken, Norfolk; fish from Wells, Norfolk; land at Brancaster, Norfolk; at Warboys, Wistow with Ravel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

17. Add MS 15350

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Title:
Codex Wintoniensis (The St Swithun Cartulary)
Scope & Content:
Known as 'Codex Wintoniensis', this 12th-century manuscript contains the St Swithun or Winchester Cartulary, a collection of charters pertaining to the cathedral priory of Winchester (Old Minster) written in Latin and Old English. The manuscript may have been in the hands of the Benedictine monk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1130-1150
Extent:

A parchment codex

18. Add MS 23211

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Title:
Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the earliest fragments of the Old English martyrology and the earliest known West Saxon and East Saxon royal geneaologies. These fragments survive in two folios, apparently written by the same scribe, which were cut down and formerly used as pastedowns in an early...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

19. Add MS 32246

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Title:
Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy
Scope & Content:
The main text of this manuscript is a fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano, copied in the first decade of the eleventh century, probably at Abingdon; the rest of the manuscript is now in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 (formerly MS 47). Förster has reconstructed what the original colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

20. Add MS 34652, f 2

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Add MS 34652, f 2
Title:
Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
Scope & Content:
Contents: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
950-1025
Extent:

1 folio, part of a parchment codex

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