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Add MS 89137
- Record Id:
- 032-001954737
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001954737
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x00036d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165152733.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 89137
- Title:
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Rental of the lands of Worcester Cathedral Priory
- Scope & Content:
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Descriptive rental of Worcester Cathedral Priory, 1240, with additional material for 1253–1285 and 1365. There is a contemporary rubric on f. 2r, reading ‘Hii fuerunt redditus prioratus Wigorniensis Anno Incarnationis Domini moccoxlo’.
Includes copies of charters issued in the name of various kings of England from Edgar to Henry III, and of Popes, bishops and the prior and convent of Worcester. On ff. 62v–64v is a copy of Magna Carta granted by King Henry III, followed on ff. 65r–66v by the Forest Charter.
The contents are incredibly similar to those of a 14th-century Worcester Cathedral register, known as the 'Registrum Prioratus' (Worcester, Dean and Chapter, Muniments A2), edited by Hale, Registrum sive Liber Irrotularius et Consuetudinarius Prioratus Beatæ Mariæ Wigorniensis. The present manuscript was possibly the exemplar of the Registrum Prioratus. According to Darlington (The Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory, p. xii), the descriptive rental was compiled about the same time (c. 1240) as another cartulary, Worcester, Dean and Chapter, Registrum I (A4) (Davis, Medieval Cartularies, no. 1070): both were probably made for Prior William of Bedford (1224–1242).
Contains a previously unattested copy of an Anglo-Saxon charter of King Edgar for Worcester, 964 (Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 731), ff. 8v–9v. Sawyer lists 33 copies of this document, the oldest of which is found in British Library, Harley MS 7513 (12th century).
This manuscript was formerly on deposit at the British Library as Loan MS 68.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-001954737
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001954737
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165152733.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1240
- End Date:
- 1365
- Date Range:
- 1240-1365
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Fos. 81: 13th-century pagination (subsequently foliation) ‘i-xcvi’ in lower margins, beginning f. 2; leaves missing after ‘xxiiii’ and elsewhere; f. 14 is a stub
Decoration: alternating red and blue pen-flourished initials, rubrics, red and blue paraphs
Script: English cursive bookscript
Binding: contemporary leather covers sewn on 4 cords; the upper cord is broken but otherwise the binding is in good condition
- Custodial History:
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Made at Worcester Cathedral Priory, c. 1240.
Deposited at the British Library by the Hon. J. N. Adderley, 1976 (Loan MS 68).
Withdrawn by the lender, September 2014.
Purchased by the British Library at Sotheby's, 2 December 2014, lot 48.
- Publications:
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R. R. Darlington, ed., The Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Register I), Pipe Roll Society, LXXVI, New Series, XXXVIII (London: The Pipe Roll Society, 1968), p. xii
G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartlaries of Great Britain and Ireland, revised by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison and David M. Smith (London: The British Library, 2010), no. 1077.1
William Hale Hale, Registrum sive Liber Irrotularius et Consuetudinarius Prioratus Beatæ Mariæ Wigorniensis, Camden Society, XCI (London: Camden Society, 1865)
P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1968)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)