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Cotton MS Augustus II 29
- Record Id:
- 040-001102033
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00016c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165156089.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 29
- Title:
- Grant of Hodilredus (Æthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons (fl. 685×706), to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess
- Scope & Content:
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Hodilredus (Æthelred or Œthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons, grants 40 hides (manentes) at Ricingahaam, Budinhaam, Dagenham, Angenlabeshaam and Widmundes felt (Wyfields in Great Ilford), all probably in Essex, to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess, for her minster called Beddanhaam (Barking); March 685 × 693, probably 686 × 688 (Sawyer, no. 1171).
The original charter breaks off mid-clause; the bounds, blessing and witness-list were added in the second half of the 8th century.
Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘de terram quam donauit odilredus:·’, an 11th-century hand adding ‘·xl· manentium +’; in a mid 10th-century hand, ‘ðis is seo boc to bercingon’; in a 12th- or 13th-century hand: ‘Carta hodured regis’; in an early 14th-century hand, ‘pro Stebbenh’. Exhibitum apud berkinge coram I. de colet’ iiii non’ marcii anno domini ·mᵒ·cccviᵗᵒ·’; in the early 16th-century hand of John Joscelyn, ‘Erkenwald fuit Aº 675’; further illegible endorsements.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Cotton Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102033 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Augustus II 29 : Grant of Hodilredus (Æthelred), kinsman of King Sebbi of the East Saxons (fl. 685×706), to Hedilburg (Æthelburg), abbess - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0317]/040-001102033
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165156089.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 417 × 204–214 mm.
Script: Uncial.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Æthelburh, of Benedictine nuns, Barking, Essex.
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/.
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: Graf, 1963), no. 187.
Lowe, E. A., English Uncial (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), plate 22.
- Publications:
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Keynes, Simon, and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/221.html [accessed 1 November 2016; bibliography].
Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 28.
Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 1171.
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 102–03.
Webster, Leslie, & Janet Backhouse (eds.), The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600–900 (London: British Museum, 1991), pp. 44–45 (no. 28).
Whitelock, Dorothy, trans., English Historical Documents, I, c. 500–1042, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1979), no. 60 (pp. 486–88).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)