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032-001976744

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Add MS 82958

Title:

Cartulary of Rufford Abbey

Scope & Content:

Cartulary of Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, arranged topographically in sections and compiled in two stages:

(a) 1st half of the 15th century (ff. 17-103);

(b) 2nd half of the 15th century (ff. 1-16).

Rufford Abbey was founded for Cistercian monks in 1146, being colonized from Rievaulx Abbey (Yorkshire), and was dissolved in 1536.

The first two quires (ff. 1-16) contain copies of royal, baronial and other charters, added to the manuscript in 1471 by Abbot John Lilly (1462-circa 1473): 'Hic incipit Registerium compilatum a dompno Johanne Lyle abbate monasterii beate Marie de Ruffordia anno domini millesimo cccc^o lxxi^o de cartis siue munimentis prefato monasterio concernentibus' (f. 1r). Contemporary inscription 'Liber sancte Marie de Ruffordie' (f. 1r).

A 17th-century transcription is in Harley MS 1063.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Foliation: ff. ii + 104 + xiv. The original order of the leaves has been re-arranged, according to a contemporaneous foliation: ‘lvii-lxiiii’ (ff. 17-24), ‘xxxiii-lvi’ (ff. 25-48), ‘xxv-xxxii’ (ff. 49-55), ‘ix-xxiiii’ (ff. 56-71), ‘i-viii’ (ff. 72-79), ‘lxv-lxxxi’ (ff. 80-96). A later hand has added the foliation ‘82-88’ (ff. 97-104). The upper endleaves (ff. i-ii: unfoliated) are taken from a discarded, 14th-century English manuscript. The blank lower endleaves (ff. iii-xvi: unfoliated) are taken from another manuscript, ruled in plummet in two columns. The lower pastedown contains verse in a 16th-century hand, an erased note in the lower margin, and the name 'Robertus Baterall'.

Dimensions: 335 × 230mm (written space 253 × 190 mm).

Binding: Medieval binding, sewn on five cords, with a white leather chemise, and a pin in the centre of the lower board.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire.

Provenance:

Signed by Robert Baterall ('Robertus Baterall', 16th century (lower pastedown)

On f. 36r is a note by the Nottinghamshire antiquary Robert Thoroton (d. 678).

Perhaps owned by the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, who acquired the site of the abbey at the Dissolution.

Deposited at the British Library as Loan MS. 41 in July 1954.

Purchased from Lord Savile of Rufford, June 2007.

Former Internal References:

Loan MS 41

Source of Acquisition:

Formerly Loan MS 41.

Publications:

G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (1958), no. 828.

C. J. Holdsworth, ed., Rufford Charters, 4 vols, Thoroton Society, Record Series, 29-30, 32, 34 (Nottingham, 1972-1981).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire