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Add MS 46204
- Record Id:
- 032-002102060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002102060
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x0003d9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058674167.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 46204
- Title:
- Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)
- Scope & Content:
- One leaf and two strips of a leaf from a Worcester cartulary. Another portion of this item is Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, ff. 181–184, the original position of the complete leaf being between ff. 182 and 183, the strips coming from an earlier part of the cartulary. Thought based on its size to have been bound with the Ceofrith Bible: Neil R. Ker, ‘The Offa Bible’ (1944). Contents catalogued by Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters (1968), nos. 1432, 76, 1252, 172, 185, 116, 192, 1346, 1362, 1304; printed by Stevenson, Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton (1911), pp. 199–212
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002102060", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 46204: Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002102060
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002102060
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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3 parchment fragments
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058674167.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 435 × 295 mm (leaf), 15 × 380 mm (each strip).
Script: English Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Mounted in glass, BM/BL in-house, 21 March 1903.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine Priory of St Mary, Worcester: localized contents.
Provenance:
The Willoughby family, Middleton Hall, Warwickshire: acquired documents from Worcester when it was dissolved in 1540; the fragments include 17th-century notes said to be by Francis Willoughby, a naturalist. The strips were used in the binding of the ‘Colpyt Booke from the Natyvitie of Our Lorde in anno regni Regis Edwardi Sexti secundo’ (1548/9), and the leaf was discovered in the nineteenth century in a bundle of estate documents at Wollaton Hall, one of the seats of the Willoughby family. Purchased from Michael Guy Percival Willoughby, 11th Baron Middleton (d. 1970), with a contribution from Neil R. Ker, in 1946.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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W.H. Stevenson, Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton, Historical Manuscripts Commission (London: HMSO, 1911).
Neil R. Ker, ‘The Offa Bible and the Nero-Middleton Cartulary’, in Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622–1623 by Patrick Young, edited by Ivor Atkins and Neil R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), pp. 77–79.
Peter Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968); edited by Susan Kelly, Rebecca Rushforth, and others, The Electronic Sawyer, 2007, http://www.esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/174.html (accessed 12 April 2016).
The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers, ed. by Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre, Manuscript Culture in the British Isles, 3 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press, 2010), p. 123.
Takako Kato, ‘London, British Library, Additional 46204’, The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, 2013, http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Add.46204.htm (accessed 12 April 2016).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)