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Stowe Ch 14
- Record Id:
- 040-001953962
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00027d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173319.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 14
- Title:
- Record of a synod of Clofesho; bounds of Godmersham and Challock, Kent
- Scope & Content:
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Record of a synod of Clofesho concerning the recovery by Archbishop Wulfred of four sulungs (aratra) at Easole, Kent, promised to him by Ealdberht, comes, and Selethryth, his sister, but fraudulently acquired by Cwoenthryth, abbess of Minster-in-Thanet; dated 824 (Sawyer, no. 1434).
Endorsed in a hand of the late 10th or early 11th century, adding the bounds of Godmersham, Kent, granted by Berhtwulf (? for Bernwulf), king of the Mercians, to Archbishop Wulfred, 823 × 825; and the bounds of eight sulungs (aratra) at Challock, Kent.
Also endorsed in a 10th-century hand, ‘To Oeseƿalum ⁊’; in a hand of the late 10th or early 11th century, ‘⁊ to Godmæresham’; and in a 12th-century hand, ‘Sinodus Wuuredi [altered to Wllureð] archiepiscopi in presentia bernulfi regis merciorum in quo recuperauit terram .iiii. aratrorum in loco qui dicitur oeseƿalum quam ei aldberht comes et eius soror seledr\i/th abatissa post mortem suam dederunt’ and ‘.latine.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001953962 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 14 : Record of a synod of Clofesho; bounds of Godmersham and Challock, Kent - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0014]/040-001953962
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ch 1-646
- 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_100165173319.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half 9th century-1st half 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 680 × 240 mm.
Script: Anglo-Saxon pointed minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, Kent.
Sir Edward Dering, first baronet (b. 1598, d. 1644), antiquary and religious controversialist: his mark on the dorse.
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- 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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P.H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 1434.
Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, ed. by N.P. Brooks and S.E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), nos. 56, 57, 58.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/483.html [accessed 5 November 2016; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)