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Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 36r–120v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102162
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0000ed
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060900466.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 36r–120v
- Title:
- Cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory (imperfect), including Inquisitio Eliensis and Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain an early, though imperfect, cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory. Most of the text was written in late 12th century. There is Old English text on ff. 99r–100r, 102v–103r.
These folios also contain:
ff. 36r-68v: Inquisitio Eliensis;
ff. 69v-70v: additions from the middle of the 13th century;
ff. 71r-98v: Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis (imperfect);
f. 120v: blank.
Decoration: initials in red, green, and blue throughout; rubrics and titles in red (from f. 65r-120v); sketches of what may be a seal of Pope Innocent (f. 111r, 113r, 116r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102160
041-001102162 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI : The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis…
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 36r–120v : Cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory (imperfect), including Inquisitio Eliensis and Inquisitio… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0435]/040-001102160[0002]/041-001102162
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_A_VI (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1270
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century-Mid 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ely Cathedral Priory: contains records pertaining to its estate management.
Provenance:
Arthur Agarde (b. 1535/6, d. 1615), archivist and antiquary: inscribed 'Ro. Cottoni Liber ex dono Arthuri Agarde' (f. 36r).
- Publications:
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Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 365.
The Electronic Sawyer, ed. by S. Keynes and others, website (accessed 21 January 2016), [http://www.esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/316.html] [includes edition of the pre-1066 charters].
Fairweather, Janet, Liber Eliensis (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), p. xxv.
Hamilton, N. E. S. A. (ed.), Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis (London, 1876).
Karn, Nicholas, Ely 1109-1197, English Episcopal Acta (Oxford: British Academy, 2005), pp. xiv, xciii, 11, 48, 56, 76 [includes edition of some acta].
Miller, Edward, The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely: The Social History of an Ecclesiastical Estate from the Tenth Century to the Early Fourteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951, reprinted 1969), p. 292.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)