Will of Badanoth Beotting; 845 × 853 (Sawyer, no. 1510). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘.anglice.’ and ‘Testamentum badnoði qui dedit familie ecclesie cristi terram quam habuit de rege. aðeluulfo’; and in a 14th-century hand, ‘Anno D.CCCº.xxxº.viiº’ and ‘xii’.
Will of Abba, reeve, including the bequest of a half-sulung at Chillenden, Kent; 833 × 839, possibly 835, in English (Sawyer, no. 1482). With English endorsement detailing the arrangements made by Heregyth, his wife, for an annual food-render to be paid to Christ Church, Canterbury, from her es...
Agreement between Eadweald, son of Oshere, and Cynethryth, widow of Ealdorman Æthelmod, concerning land at (Little) Chart, Kent: 863 × 870, perhaps 867 × 870 (Sawyer, no. 1200).
A composite manuscript comprising: ff. 1-2: Early modern flyleaves with notes and contents list; (ff. 3-6: An illustrated chronicle of the kings of England is now bound separately with ff. I-V, 5 former fabric curtains, as Cotton Vitellius A XIII/1); ff. 7-19: Laws and Genealogy of the Kings ...
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Old English version) (1r-38v); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, G-text (39r-47v); Old English Laws (Æthelstan II, Alfred, Ine) (48r-53v)
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v); Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscripts, now bound in two volumes, contains hagiographical material and documents from 11th- and 12th-century England, including: Cotton Nero E I/1: Part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England, known as the Cotton-Corpus Legendary since fra...
These eight fragments most likely belonged to Cotton MS Otho B XI, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript contains copies of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...
Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
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This manuscript is a compilation, containing parts of three separate Pontificals copied between late 10th or early 11th and 12th centuries (two of which include coronation ordos); some records pertaining to Christ Church which were originally copied into the Gospel-book in Cotton Tiberius A II be...
Bequest by Thurstan to Christ Church of land at Wimbish, Essex; 1042 × 1043 (Sawyer, no. 1530). Upper portion of a tripartite chirograph, with ‘CYROGRAPHVM’ written along the lower edge. Endorsed in a 12th-century hand or hands, ‘Þurstan dedit ƿimbisc ecclesiae cristi id est conuentae’, ‘.angl...