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Add MS 46701
- Record Id:
- 032-002102747
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002102747
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x00007e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165150359.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 46701
- Title:
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Cartulary of Stixwould Priory
- Scope & Content:
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The Cartulary of the Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, Lincolnshire, containing transcripts of royal, episcopal, noble and private charters, arranged by location and usually with the witnesses omitted. The latest dated charter in the original hand is an agreement with Croyland Abbey in 1263 (f. 107r).
The British Library holds the original charters for the following entries: f. 58v (Egerton Chs 428, 433); f. 59r (Egerton Ch 431); f. 61v, (Egerton Ch 507); ff. 63v-64r (Egerton Ch 444); ff. 64r-v (Egerton Ch 450); f. 64v (Egerton Ch 449).
Contents:
ff. 1r-110v: Cartulary of the Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, containing transcriptions of royal, episcopal, noble, and private charters, arranged by location, as follows:
ff. 1r-11v: Stixwould.
ff. 11v-22v: Horsington.
ff. 22v-38r: Hoyland.
f. 38r-v: Feriby.
ff. 38v-39v: Waynfleet.
ff. 39r-42r: Feriby and Barton.
ff. 42v-45v: Feriby.
ff. 46r-47v: Waynfleet.
ff. 48r-54v: Hundelby.
ff. 54v-58r: Lincoln.
ff. 58v-64v: Huntingdon.
ff. 65r-68v: Panton.
f. 69r: Freston.
ff. 70r-77r: Torp.
ff. 78r-90r: Westby.
f. 90v: Stokes.
f. 91r-v: Sillington.
ff. 92r-v: Stokes.
f. 93r-v: Torp.
ff. 94r-97v: Wymondham.
ff. 98r-100v: Lanington.
f. 101r: Skegness.
ff. 104r-105r: Stixwould.
ff. 105v-107r: Bukehale
f. 107v: Hundelby and Waynfleet.
f. 108r: Waynfleet and Feriby.
ff. 108v-110v: Huntingdon.
The manuscript also contains a number of later additions:
f. i recto: an incomplete copy of a grant of houses and land in Horsington (Lincolnshire), under the heading ‘Mardlayn [Magdalen] College'.
f. vii verso: an 18th-century inscription, ‘This book relates to the priory / of Stixwolde in Lincolnshire’.
ff. 101r-102v: a set of charters added after the volume’s composition, in a late 13th century hand.
ff. 110v-116v: a set of charters added after the volume’s composition, in various late 13th-century hands.
ff. 119v-120v: a set of charters added after the volume’s composition, in various late 13th-century hands.
f. 121r: a set of charters added after the volume’s composition, in a 15th-century hand.
f. 122v: a set of charters added after the volume’s composition, in a 15th-century hand.
ff. 123r: a terrier of the grange of North Stoke, added in a 15th-century hand.
ff. viii-ix: a former pastedown, now folded to form a bifolium, from Thomas de Kent's Roman de Toute Chevalerie, written in Anglo-Norman French, dating to the 13th century. The text, beginning f. ix verso, col. 1 'Elmes ont', and ending f. viii verso, col. 2 'ceste vie', corresponds to, though is not identical with, lines 9198-9309 (ch. cli, 1. 3-clvi, 1. 10) of Durham Cathedral MS C. IV. 27B.
ff. 103r-v, 117r-119r, 121v-122r, 125r-126v are blank.
Decoration:
Initials in blue with penwork decoration in red or in red with penwork decoration in green (ff. viii-ix). Space left for an image (f. viii verso).
Rubricated titles and headings throughout, with spaces left blank for coloured initials.
Manicules (ff. 6r, 8v, 10r, 11v-12r, 15r, 21v, 28r, 68v, 78v, 87v, and 92v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002102747
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002102747
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165150359.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Condition: A leaf is wanting, with loss of text, between ff. 58 and 59.
Dimensions: 140 x 200 (text space: 110 x 160 mm).
Foliation: ff. vii + 125 + viii-x (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 25 unfoliated parchment leaves at the end); i-x are parchment flyleaves; f. x is a pastedown to the inside lower cover. A 16th-century ink pagination 1-248, now lacking 117-118, runs from ff. 1-124v. Ink pagination crossed out on the rectos but not the versos.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: 16th century, brown calf-skin, gilt-stamped with rectangular panels, and in the centre a Tudor rose within the Garter motto, surmounted by a crown, possibly dating to the nunnery's brief existence as a royal foundation of Premonstratensian nuns between 1537 and 1539, after the suppression of the Cistercian house in 1536 (see Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xii, pt. ii, no. 411 (27)); metal clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Stixwould, England.
Provenance:
The Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, Lincolnshire., founded c. 1135 by Lucy, Countess of Chester: the contents pertain to the convent and the binding has a Tudor rose within the Garter motto, surmounted by a crown, presumably with reference to the nunnery's brief existence as a royal foundation of Premonstratensian nuns, 1537-1539. Documents relating to Lincolnshire from 13th to 16th century have been added in several hands (ff. 110-124).
'Willm: Welcome', inscribed in an italic (? 17th-cent.) hand (f. ix verso).
John Coventry (d. 1652), MP and son of Thomas Coventry (b. 1578, d. 1640), 1st Baron Coventry and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England: belonged to him in the 17th century see Dugdale's Catalogue (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dugdale 48, f. 58v).
The Barons and Earls of Coventry, latterly at Croome Court, near Worcester: their sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 October 1948, lot 127. Bought by the British Museum.
- Publications:
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The Anglo-Norman 'Alexander' :(Le roman de toute chevalerie) by Thomas of Kent, ed. by Brian Foster with the assistance of Ian Short, 2 vols (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1977), I, Texts and variants, p. 3; II, Introduction, Notes and Glossary, p. 13.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1946-1950 (London: British Museum, 1979), pp. 148-49.
Coburn V. Graves, 'English Cistercian Nuns in Lincolnshire', Speculum, 54.3 (1979), 492-99.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 165.
Susan M. Johns, Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 247.
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, ed. by Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjevíc, Judith Weiss (Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2010), p. 77, n. 16.
G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, rev. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison and David M. Smith (London: The British Library, 2010), p. 188 (no. 931).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)