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Add Ch 71355

Record Id:
032-003314382
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003314382
MDARK:
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Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 71355
Title:
Charter
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 folio
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Languages:
Hebrew
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1271
End Date:
1271
Date Range:
1271
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add Ch 71355

Charter

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Deed in Latin and Hebrew, relating to the Jewish community of Northampton

Acknowledgment of the obligation of the Jewish community of Northampton to pay an annual rent of half a mark to the Priory of St Andrew, Northampton, for the burial ground outside the north gate of the town. Jewish witnesses are: Samuel Hazan ben Aaron, Benet ben Isaac, Samson ben Samson.

Latin and Hebrew duplicate of a lost charter of Samuel ben Aaron, Benet ben Isaac and Sampson ben Sampson acting on behalf of the Jewish community of Northampton.

Physical Description

Parchment of the 13th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 195 mm.

Condition

Folded in half.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

The Hebrew text written beneath the Latin one.

A seal attachment (strip of parchment), but currently no seal.

Hand(s)

Latin Gothic script and Hebrew Ashkenazi documentary script of the 13th century.

History

Origin: ; Northampton (England)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired by the British Museum in the 19th century.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: a diplomatic and Palaeographical Study. Turnhout: Brill, 2015.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_71355 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith, Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin documents from medieval England: a diplomatic and palaeographical study (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), no. 188.
    Printed by A. J. Collins and C. Moss, 'The Northampton Jewry and its Cemetery in the thirteenth Century', Trans. Jewish Hist. Soc. xv, 1939-1945, pp. 151-164.
    A. J. Collins, Antiquaries Journal, xxiv, 1944, pp. 68-70 and pl. XII.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL