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Add Ch 66715
- Record Id:
- 032-002203519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002203519
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x0003d7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356220.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 66715
- Title:
- Bull of Pope Adrian IV granting privileges to Neasham Priory
- Scope & Content:
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Bull of Pope Adrian IV (r. 1154-1159), at the instance of the nuns of Neasham Priory (County Durham), confirming the foundation of the house and its possessions, listing and confirming previous donations to the priory, exempting the priory from tithes from the food for their animals or from the lands which it brought into cultivation, granting the right to bury anyone at the priory except excommunicates or those under interdict, placing the priory under papal protection, and threatening excommunication against any who violates this bull.
Given in the hand of Roland, cardinal and chancellor of the Church, at the Lateran, Rome, 3 February 1157.
With the signatures of Pope Adrian, 16 cardinals, and 3 bishops, including Cardinal Ubaldo Allucingoli, the future Pope Lucius III (r. 1181-1185), and Cardinal Giacinto Bobone, the future Celestine III (r. 1191-1198).
Affixed with a bulla of Adrian IV, oval, black, with the legend ‘s[anctus] pa[ulus] s[anctus] pe[trus]’. Reverse: ‘adrianus p[a]p[a] iiii’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002203519
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002203519
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100181356220.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1157
- End Date:
- 1157
- Date Range:
- 3 Feb 1157
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 765 x 485 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Rome, Italy.
Scribe:
Roland, cardinal and chancellor.
Provenance:
Neasham Priory, 1157.
Mr Salvin, 1893: Crossman, ‘A Bull of Adrian IV’, p. 269.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby’s, 26 July 1926, lot 728 A.
- Publications:
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William Crossman, ‘A Bull of Adrian IV. relating to Neasham Priory, Co. Durham’, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 2, 16 (1894), 268-73.
J. A. H., 'A Bull of Pope Adrian IV', British Museum Quarterly, 1:3 (December 1926), 74-75.
Walther Holtzmann, Papsturkunden in England, 3 vols (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1931-52), I, pp. 317-19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)