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Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f 87r-v
- Record Id:
- 041-001102208
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00010e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f 87r-v
- Title:
- Writs of King Cnut of England
- Scope & Content:
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This half-sized folio contains two writs of King Cnut of England (reigned 1016–35), both dated 1035.
This folio includes:
f. 87r: a writ stating that Cnut has granted all of Ælmaer's landed property to Archbishop Æthelnoth (Sawyer Number 988);
f. 87v: a writ ordering Archbishop Æthelnoth to continue to fulfil obligations on the archbishopric's lands, as he had done before and after Æthelric's appointment as reeve (Sawyer Number 987).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102206
041-001102208 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D; writs of Cnut; extracts from Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E; Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough.
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f 87r-v : Writs of King Cnut of England - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0448]/040-001102206[0002]/041-001102208
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B IV
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_IV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1025
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury: this folio originally formed part of the documents collected in the Mac Durnan Gospels, London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 1370 (previously Lambeth Palace, MS 771), which King Athelstan had given to Christ Church, Canterbury (Lambeth Palace Library MS 1370, f. 3v). It was possibly detached by John Joscelyn, who was the secretary of the Archbishop Matthew Parker (see Electronic Sawyer, http://www.esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/322.html).
Provenance:
? Matthew Parker, (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbishop of Canterbury: owned Lambeth Palace MS 1370, judging from the inserted 13th century drawings found in other works in his collection (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 347).
? John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: may have detached and inserted next to Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (see Electronic Sawyer, http://www.esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/322.html).
- Publications:
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Brooks, Nicholas, The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (Leicester: University of Leicester Press, 1984), pp. 296, 387 n. 120.
Chaplais, Pierre, 'The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: from the Diploma to the Writ', Journal of the Society of Archivists, 3 (1966), 160–76 (p. 175).
Davis, G.R.C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 177.
The Electronic Sawyer, ed. by S. Keynes and others, website (King's College London, 2016), http://www.esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/322.html [includes edition and translation].
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 521.
Harmer, F.E., Anglo-Saxon Writs (Manchester, 1952), pp. 171-72, 450.
Ker, N.R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 284.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35.
Lawson, M.K., Cnut: the Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century (London, 1993), pp. 66 n. 29, 237.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)