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Cotton Ch V 73
- Record Id:
- 040-004293501
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156141560.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165154805.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch V 73
- Title:
- Grant by Aufrica de Connacht to Simon de Montagu of her right to the Isle of Man
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Aufrica de Connacht (fl. 1293-1311), heir to the land of Mann, of all her right to Mann, to Simon de Montagu (1259?-1316), knight. Given at Bridgewater, Somerset, Thursday the vigil of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 1305 [24 March 1306].
Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, 'L[itter]e datien caunce del ylle de man’; (in a 16th century hand): ‘the lady of man’.
Affixed with an imperfect seal of Aufrica de Connacht, lozenge, brown, with a full-length image of a woman in a dress and headdress, hands clasped together, and foliage on each side (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), IV, p. 722).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004293501 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch V 73 : Grant by Aufrica de Connacht to Simon de Montagu of her right to the Isle of Man - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0102]/040-004293501
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165154805.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1306
- End Date:
- 1306
- Date Range:
- 1306
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 60 x 195 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Bridgewater, England.
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.
- Publications:
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Monumenta de insula manniae; or, A collection of national documents relating to the Isle of Man. Translated and edited, with appendix, ed. by J.R. Oliver, 2 vols (Douglas, 1860), II, pp. 137-38.
Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), IV, p. 722.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)