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032-001954613

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Add MS 89169

Title:

Cartulary of Burton Abbey

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references.

ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer.

ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; papal, episcopal, and capitular; knights and free tenants, chronologically by abbots) and partly according to types of document (Carte sigillate, final concords). Some documents are given dates as early as 1004; the most recent appears to be from 1421 (f. 51v). A survey of the abbey’s lands in the time of Henry I, ff. 28r–36v, is a 13th-century addition.

ff. 75r–107v: Supplement from the time of Abbot Laurence of St Edward (1229–60), partly duplicating material entered elsewhere, and preceded by an incomplete table of contents. Several layers of additions at ff. 98r–107v.

ff. 108–119: Supplement from the 14th century, beginning with an account of the acquisition of the abbey’s land in Austrey, Warwickshire, ‘Quomodo terra quam habemus in Alduluistr’ de dono Marg’ de Nerbone ad ipsam peruenit et quomodo seruitium unius uirgate terre quam tenuit Philippus filius symonis peruenit ad Abbatem.’

ff. 120–127: Additions from the 13th and 14th centuries.

ff. 128–135: Additions from the 13th century, many concerning Austrey.

ff. 136–147: Additions from the 14th and 15th centuries.

ff. 148r–151v: Addition from the 13th century of documents relating to a grant by Master Ralph de Chaddesdene; two further charters added on ff. 150v–151v in the 15th century, the first in French.

ff. 152r–157r: Copy of the Magna carta as issued in 1225 by Henry III from the late 13th century; added in the 15th century at f. 157r–v, ‘Carta Regis Henrici primi de libertatibus’.

Note: This summary follows the codicological units of the manuscript; for more detailed contents, see Wrottesley (1884), who refers to the fifteenth-century foliation.

Upper pastedown is a 15th-century French charter, written in Gothic cursive; lower pastedown is a 14th-century Gospel, beginning at John 18:30, written in Gothic script.

Decoration:

Red, blue, or occasionally green initials; rubrics. A drawing of a wheel on f. 2r; in the lower margin of ff. 2r and 53v, a pair of axes.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Loans of Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Parchment codex

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Languages:

English, Old
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1230

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

Mid 13th century-15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 280 × 195 mm.

Foliation: ff. 157. Foliated ‘i–lxxxviii’ from f. 8 in the lower left corner of rectos in plummet; later supplemented in a 15th-century hand in the upper right corner of rectos, to encompass subsequently added leaves, ‘i–cxxiii’. The foliation indicates that the leaves have been rearranged in several places.

Collation: i^8–1+1 (ff. i, 1–5; 7th cancelled, 1st added, the upper a pastedown); ii² (ff. 6–7); iii¹² (ff. 8–19; an extra parchment slip sewn to f. 11r), iv^12–4 (ff. 20–27; 9th–12th cancelled); v^10–1 (ff. 28–36; 1st cancelled); vi–viii⁸ (ff. 37–60), ix¹⁰ (ff. 61–70), x^6–2 (ff. 71–74; 4th and 6th excised); xi¹² (ff. 75–86), xii^12–1 (ff. 87–97; 9th cancelled), xiii¹⁰ (ff. 98–107); xiv¹² (ff. 108–119); xv^12–4 (ff. 120–127; 9th–12th cancelled, stubs tied together); xvi⁸ (ff. 128–135; an extra parchment slip sewn to the edge of f. 133); xvii¹² (ff. 136–147); xviii^6–2 (ff. 148–151; 7th, 8th cancelled); xix⁶⁺¹ (ff. 152–157, ii; 7th added, the lower a pastedown).

Script: Gothic (original sections); Gothic cursive (most additions). The manuscript contains many marginal annotations in several different hands (ff. 25r–v; 31r; 35r; 44r; 54r; 94v–95v; 102v; 128r–129r; 135r–v).

Binding: Late medieval, whittawed leather over wooden boards; missing clasps except for a lower attachment. Back cover bears traces of a faded 16^th-century inscription, ‘monasterium’ (?).

Custodial History:

Origin:

The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Modwen, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. Most of the collection was compiled before 1241, but it has been expanded over time by hands of the 13th to 15th centuries.

Provenance:

William Paget (b. 1505/6, d. 1563), 1st Baron Paget. Acquired Burton Abbey after its dissolution; the book stayed in the family. His descendant, Henry William (b. 1768, d. 1854), 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, was created the Marquess of Anglesey in 1815.

Loaned to the British Museum by the Marquess in 1947 (Loan MS 30).

Purchased by the British Library in 2016.

Former Internal References:

Loan MS 30

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.

Publications:

George Wrottesley, ‘An Abstract of the Contents of the Burton Chartulary in Possession of the Marquis of Anglesey at Beaudesert’, in Staffordshire Historical Collections (London: Staffordshire Record Society, 1884), v, part i, 1–101, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/staffs-hist-collection/vol5/pt1 (accessed 22 April 2016).

George Wrottesley, ‘The Burton Chartulary [Devonshire Portion]’, Journal of Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 7 (1885), pp. 97–153 https://archive.org/details/journalofderbysh06derb.

Charters of Burton Abbey, ed. by P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).

G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 91.

D.A. Carpenter, ‘The Saving Clause in Magna Carta: New Light Shed on its Meaning by the Copies of the 1225 Charter at Burton Abbey’, The Magna Carta Project http://magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk/read/feature_of_the_month/Dec_2015_3.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burton Abbey, Staffordshire