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Cotton Ch XVII 6
- Record Id:
- 040-004338993
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163173311.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165155102.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch XVII 6
- Title:
- Grant by Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England, to William, bishop of Ely, of lands, fisheries and rents in Upwell and Outwell
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Eleanor of Provence (b. c. 1223, d. 1291), Queen of England, to William [de Kilkenny] (d. 1256), bishop of Ely, of lands, fisheries, rents and other rights in Upwell and Outwell, Cambridgeshire.
Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘cart[a] Alionora regina [illegible] de piscares [?] et homagiis redditibus Upwell et Utwell’; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Eleonora’; in a third hand, ‘dupl.’.
Affixed with the queen’s imperfect green seal. Obverse: a figure of the queen on corbel, full length, crowned, draped in loose dress girded at waist and reaching in graceful folds below feet, with loose cloak, buckled at neck and reaching almost to the ground. In her right hand, a long cross or scepter surmounted by cross and floreated, in her left Hand, a similar sceptre ensigned with orb and dove. Beneath corbel a lion sejant guardant. The fragmentary legend, ‘ALIA[NORA . DE]I: GRACIA : REG[IN]A : ANGLIE : DOMINA : HYBERN[NI[E]’. Reverse: suspended by strap, from richly designated tree of three branches, a shield of arms: ENGLAND, and the fragmentary legend, ‘[A]LIANO[RA :] DVCISSA : NORMANNIE : [ET : A]QVITANIE : COMITIS[SA : AN]DEGAV[IE.’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), I, pp. 98-99).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004338993 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch XVII 6 : Grant by Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England, to William, bishop of Ely, of lands, fisheries and rents in Upwell and Outwell - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0116]/040-004338993
- 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_100165155102.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1255
- End Date:
- 1256
- Date Range:
- 1255-1256
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 117 x 200 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
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:
- Birch, Walter de Gray, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1887-1900), I, pp. 98-99.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)