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Stowe Ch 20
- Record Id:
- 040-001953968
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000283
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173363.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 20
- Title:
- Will of Ealdorman Alfred
- Scope & Content:
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Will of Ealdorman Alfred; 871 × 889 (Sawyer, no. 1508).
Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘Þis is ęlfredes ęrfe geƿrit.’; and in a 12th-century hand, ‘Testamentum elfredi ducis.’ and ‘.anglice.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001953968 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 20 : Will of Ealdorman Alfred - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0020]/040-001953968
- 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_100165173363.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0871
- End Date:
- 0889
- Date Range:
- 871-889
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 162–164 × 262–272 mm.
Script: Insular 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. 1508.
Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, ed. by N.P. Brooks and S.E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), no. 96.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/490.html [accessed 5 November 2016; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)