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Cotton Ch IV 18
- Record Id:
- 040-003344597
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035379343.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165154768.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch IV 18
- Title:
- Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England to St John’s, Beverley
- Scope & Content:
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Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England (r. 924-939) to St John’s, Beverley, in Middle English verse.
Dated 925 (for 927 × 939).
Spurious (Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 451).
Endorsed in a 16th-century hand, ‘Carta ædelstani facta sancto Iohanni beuerl’ 925 sinceroque[?]’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Cotton Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-003344597 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch IV 18 : Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England to St John’s, Beverley - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0001]/040-003344597
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165154768.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1330
- End Date:
- 1370
- Date Range:
- Mid 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 265 × 166 mm.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, possibly the Minster of St John the Evangelist, Beverley, Yorkshire.
Provenance:
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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Keynes, Simon, and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/903.html [accessed 1 November 2016].
Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 451.Witty, J.R., 'The Rhyming Charter of Beverley', Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, 22 (1921), 36–44.
Woodman, D.A., ed., Charters of Northern Houses, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 16 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), no. 12 [edition and copies information].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)