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Cotton Ch XI 36
- Record Id:
- 040-004311671
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158966845.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165155001.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch XI 36
- Title:
- Chirograph between Christina of Markyate, prioress of Markyate Priory, and William of Arden of Hamton, relating to land in Deddington and Kinwalsey
- Scope & Content:
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Chirograph between Christina [of Markyate, c. 1096-1155x1166], prioress of Markyate Priory [Bedfordshire], and William of Arden of Hamton. The priory grants William all of its land in Deddington [Oxfordshire] and Kinwalsey [Warwickshire], which Jordan of Stlingeleia held of the priory; dated to between the founding of Markyate in 1145 and Christina’s death by 1166.
Endorsed: in a 12th-century hand, ‘[illegible]-ampon / [illegible]’.
Affixed with two seals. The first, an imperfect and indistinct seal, lozenge, brown, with Christ enthroned, a book in his left hand. The second, imperfect and very indistinct, lozenge, brown (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), I, p. 658).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004311671 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch XI 36 : Chirograph between Christina of Markyate, prioress of Markyate Priory, and William of Arden of Hamton, relating to land in… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0112]/040-004311671
- 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_100165155001.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1145
- End Date:
- 1166
- Date Range:
- 1145-1166
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 120 x 160 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Markyate Priory or William of Arden of Hamton, 1145-1166.
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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Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. William Dugdale, Roger Dodsworth, John Caley, Henry Ellis, and Bulkeley Bandinel, 6 vols in 8 (London, 1846), III, pp. 372-73.
Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), I, p. 658.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)