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Cotton MS Augustus II 2
- Record Id:
- 040-001102006
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000139
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165156044.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 2
- Title:
- Grant of King Hlothhere of Kent (673–685) to Abbot Beorhtwald (archbishop of Canterbury 692–731) and his monastery
- Scope & Content:
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King Hlothhere of Kent grants land at Westanæ in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, and at Sturry, Kent, to Abbot Beorhtwald and his monastery; dated May 679, Reculver (Sawyer, no. 8).
The earliest surviving single-sheet Anglo-Saxon charter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Cotton Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102006 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Augustus II 2 : Grant of King Hlothhere of Kent (673–685) to Abbot Beorhtwald (archbishop of Canterbury 692–731) and his monastery - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0290]/040-001102006
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165156044.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0679
- End Date:
- 0679
- Date Range:
- 679
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 335 × 150 mm.
Script: Uncial.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Reculver Minster, Kent.
Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, Kent.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton. Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 19 [exhibition catalogue].
Brooks, N.P., and S.E. Kelly, eds., Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), no. 2 [edition and commentary].
Bruckner, Albert, & Robert Marichal, Chartae Latini Antiquiores: Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters prior to the ninth century, III, British Museum, London (Olten and Lausanne: Urs-Graf Verlag, 1963), no. 182.
Gameson, Richard, ‘Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 28-44 (pp. 42 n. 49, 43; fig. 3.7).
Keynes, Simon, and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/200.html [accessed 1 November 2016; bibliography].
Lowe, E.A., English Uncial (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), plate XXI.
Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 27.
Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 8.
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 102–03.
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)