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Add MS 7138
- Record Id:
- 032-002029091
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029091
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000229
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165151987.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7138
- Title:
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The Plegmund Narrative or Crediton Claim (with letters from Sir Walter Trevelyan and Henry Petrie)
- Scope & Content:
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Statement of Crediton’s claim to certain estates in Cornwall, giving an account of the purported creation of new bishops and their consecration in 905 (Winchester, Ramsbury, Sherborne, Wells, Crediton, Selsey and Dorchester), and statement of the assignment to Crediton, on that occasion, of land at Pawton in St Breock, Cællincg, and Lawhitton, Cornwall; spurious (Sawyer, no. 1451a).
Endorsed in a 14th-century hand, ‘Scriptam continens diuisiones Episcopatuum per papam formosum.’
Correspondence related to the charter has been bound with it:
f. i r–v: Letter from Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797–1879), 6th Baronet and naturalist, to Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869), Principal Librarian of the British Museum, 6 July 1855.
f. ii r–v: Letter from Frederick Henry Petrie (c.1772–1842), antiquary, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 8 December 1827.
f. iii r–v: Endorsement from the paper in which the document was kept at Nettlecombe, which according to Trevelyan was written in the hand of a Rev. Johnson (unknown).
f. iv r–v: Memorandum noting how the Anglo-Saxon document was found at Nettlecombe and presented by Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet and MP (1735–1828) to the British Museum, probably in the hand of Walter Trevelyan (1763–1830), son of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (see f. i), dated 1827.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Anglo-Saxon Charters - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029091
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029091
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment leaf bound with paper correspondence
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165151987.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 160 × 410 mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 1 (ff. i–iv are modern paper letters; + 4 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end).
Script: Anglo-Saxon square minuscule.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? St Augustine’s, Canterbury; by the same scribe as Oxford, St John’s College, MS 28, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 389.
Provenance:
? St Peter's Cathedral, Exeter: scribes at Exeter copied a version of the Plegmund narrative into the Leofric Missal (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 579, ff. 2r-3v), along with other texts describing how Leofric had the see moved from Crediton to Exeter (see Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter, 1993, p. 217).
Endorsed in a 14th-century hand (f. 1v).
Sir John Trevelyan (b. 1735, d. 1828), 4th Baronet: presented to the British Museum in 1828 (f. ii).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Charters, ed. S. Keynes, Anglo-Saxon Charters, Supplement 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1991), no. 5.
- Publications:
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J.A. Robinson, The Saxon Bishops of Wells: A Historical Study in the Tenth Century British Academy Supplemental Papers IV (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1918), pp. 18-26 [includes edition].
P. Chaplais,'The Letter from Bishop Wealdhere of London to Archbishop Brihtwold of Canterbury: the Earliest Original "Letter Close" Extant in the West', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts, and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker, ed. by M.B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson (London: Scolar Press, 1978), 3-24 (p. 16 n. 24).
N.P. Brooks, 'The Development of Military Obligations in Eighth- and Ninth-Century England', in England Before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock,ed. by P. Clemoes and K. Hughes (London: Cambridge University Press, 1971), 69-84.
Mary Anne O'Donovan, 'An interim revision of episcopal dates for the province of Canterbury, 850-950: part I', Anglo-Saxon England, 1 (1972), 23-44 (p. 38).
Councils and Synods: with other documents relating to the English Church, I, A. D.871-1204, ed. D. Whitelock, M. Brett and C. N. L. Brooke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), part i, no. 35.i, pp. 165-169 [edition].
Nicholas Brooks, The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984), pp. 210-13.
M.A. O'Donovan, Charters of Sherborne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. lv-lvi.
P.W. Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993), pp. 215-23 [edition].
D. Dumville, 'English Square Minuscule Script: the Mid-Century Phases', Anglo-Saxon England, 23 (1994), 133-64 (p. 138 n. 25).
A.R. Rumble, 'Edward the Elder and the Churches of Winchester and Wessex' in Edward the Elder, 899-924, ed. by N. Higham and D. H. Hill (London: Routledge, 2001), 230-47 (pp. 238-43) [translation].
The Leofric Missal, ed. by N. Orchard, Henry Bradshaw Society, 113-4, 2 volumes, (London: Boydell, 2002), I, 209.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/971.html [accessed 1 November 2016].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)