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Add Ch 19516
- Record Id:
- 032-003535459
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003535459
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101150050.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140451.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 19516
- Title:
- Grant of King Æthelstan of England (r. 924–939) to the minster of Sts Mary and Peter, Exeter
- Scope & Content:
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King Æthelstan of England grants one hide at Monkton to the minster of Sts Mary and Peter, Exeter; dated 670 (for 924 x 939); Latin with Old English bounds; spurious (Sawyer, no. 387).
Endorsed in hands contemporary with the charter, 'Munecatunes boc' and 'to Muneca tune'; in a 13th-century hand, ‘Regis Ædelstani de Munecatun’; and in hands of the 16th century, 'Carta Adelstani Regis super manso quod olim vocabatur Moneketone . modo tamen Exchestre pro fundacione Ecclesia', 'Carta Adthelstani Regis concessa Beato Petro de manso quod antiquitus vocabatur Moneketone ad monasterium quod nunc nuncupatur Exechestre ad fundandum monasterium 7 divise mansi sunt hee.primo de scokebroc forde . sursum per rivum etc . ut infra patet' and 'Devon'.
The same scribe was also responsible for three other charters, most likely produced at Exeter: Exeter 2517, Exeter 2520, and William Salt Library, Stafford. MS 7 (Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule (2014), p. 155, n. 143).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Anglo-Saxon Charters - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003535459
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003535459
- 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_100165140451.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 280 x 260 mm.
Script: Imitative of Insular minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance: Cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter.
Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (b. 1797, d. 1879), 6th Baronet: presented to the British Museum 13 April 1872.
- Publications:
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E.A. Bond et al., Facsimiles of Ancient Charters in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1873–1878) IV, p. 7.
P.H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 387.
D.W. Blake, 'Bishop Leofric', Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire Association 106 (1974), 47–57 (pp. 51-2).
P. Chaplais, 'The Authenticity of the Royal Anglo-Saxon Diplomas of Exeter', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 39 (1966), 1–34 (pp. 5-9, no. 2).
LangScape: The Language of Landscape: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside., version 0.9, accessed 1 November, 2008.
Charles Insley, 'Remembering Communities Past: Exeter Cathedral in the Eleventh Century', in Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World, edited by Paul Dalton, Charles Insley, and Louise J Wilkinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 41-60 (p. 56).
Peter A. Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), pp. 154-56.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/manuscript/177.html [accessed 1 May 2020; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)