Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Add Ch 19587
- Record Id:
- 040-002144362
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002144345
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000345.0x000245
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167857189.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 19587
- Title:
-
Indulgence granted by Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford, to visitors to the relics of St James the Apostle at Reading Abbey
- Scope & Content:
-
Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford (b. c. 1110, d. 1187) grants an indulgence for twenty days, to all those visiting the relics of St James the Apostle at Reading Abbey, upon or during the octave of his festival.
Endorsed: 'Gileb[ertus]. Hereford. d[e] absolutio[n]e penite[n]tiu[m] i[n] festo s[an]c[t]i I[acobus]. XX d[ies].'
Affixed with a seal, showing the Bishop, full-length, with a stringed mitre, lifting his right hand in benediction and holding a pastoral staff in his left hand (Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887), no. 1599).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002144345
040-002144362 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 19571-19659 : ROYAL and other grants of lands and privileges to Reading Abbey, co. Berk.; with inventories of goods and bailiffs'…
Add Ch 19587 : Indulgence granted by Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford, to visitors to the relics of St James the Apostle at Reading Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002144345[0017]/040-002144362
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 19571-19659
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100167857189.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1148
- End Date:
- 1163
- Date Range:
- 1148-1163
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 100 x 165 mm.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Presented to the British Museum by Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster (b. 1825, d. 1899) on 8 February 1873.
- Publications:
-
Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols(London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1887), I, p. 236.
Jamieson Boyd Hurry, Reading Abbey (London: E. Stock, 1901), p. 163.
B. R. Kemp, Reading Abbey Cartularies: General documents and those relating to English counties other than Berkshire (London: Royal Historical Society, 1986), p. 149.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)