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Add MS 89168
- Record Id:
- 032-003311303
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003311303
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030668095.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165152786.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89168
- Title:
- Cartulary of Combermere Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 2r–9v: Register of the lands and tenements of Combermere Abbey, containing copies of 42 leases and indentures from the 13th to 16th centuries: ‘Registerium Omnium et singularum terrarum et tenementum ad monasterium de Cambirmere pertinentum in Wico malbano Jacentum, et per Indenturas ad terminum diuersis hominibus dimissarum. Vna cum Rentalibus per baliuos ibidem de Anno in Annum factum ut inferius patebit intuentibus’. The first deed is dated 1296.
ff. 12r–26r: Copies of rentals from the 14th to 16th centuries. ‘Rentalia Wici malbani. Rentale feodi Abbatis de Cambrimere Wici malbani anno domini millesimo tricentesimo octogesimo quinto’ [1384].
Decoration:
Initials of new documents in the register, and to a lesser extent in the lists of rentals, are flourished in ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003311303
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003311303
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165152786.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1524
- End Date:
- 1529
- Date Range:
- 1524-1529
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: paper.
Dimensions: 285 × 200 mm (written area variable, approx. 210 × 160 mm).
Foliation: ff. 27. Ink foliation found on the first few leaves, but afterwards lost with most corners of the page.
Collation: singletons; a leaf has been excised between ff. 25 and 26.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Sewn together in a parchment wrapper.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary and St Michael, Combermere, Chesire. Title, ‘Codex iste inceptus erat per me Johannem Massy suppriorem Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo quarto’ [1524] (f. 1r). John Massy (d. 1564) was the final abbot of Combermere. In another hand, ‘Ab anno 8 R. 2 usque 21 H. 8’ (f. 1r), i.e. the 8th year of Richard II to the 21st year of Henry VIII, 1384/85–1529/30. ‘Liber abbatis de cumbermere’ (back cover).
Provenance:
Sir George Cotton (d. 1545), comptroller to the household of the Duke of Richmond: the abbey buildings were acquired by him after the Dissolution and remained in the family. Pressmark, no. 15 (probably 17th-century, back cover). The contents of the abbey were sold by Francis Lynch Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, fourth Viscount Combermere (b. 1887, d. 1969), including the library, at an auction at the abbey in 1919.
‘J.F.E.’: pencilled initials likely from the 20th century (front cover); the manuscript is untraced beween 1919 and 2015.
Samuel Gedge, booksellers: purchased the book from a dealer who had bought it from a west London house clearance.
Purchased by the British Library, 1 February 2016.
- Publications:
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G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 274.1.
James Hall, The Book of the Abbot of Combermere, 1289 to 1529, volume 2 of Miscellanies Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, 31 (London: Wyman, 1896), https://archive.org/details/recordsociety31recouoft [translation].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)