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Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 2–7
- Record Id:
- 041-001102423
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00017c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060457614.0x000007
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 2–7
- Title:
- Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman documents
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain a series of documents pertaining to Christ Church which originally formed part of a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church (Cotton MS Tiberius A II). All the documents are in Latin, apart from those on ff. 4r-6r, and they were copied in the 11th century. They include:
ff. 2r-3v: a spurious grant claiming to record King Æthelred refounding Christ Church's monastic community and confirming some of its lands in Kent, Sussex, Essex, and Suffolk, dated 1006 (S914 in Sawyer's list, printed in Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters (1968) and updated and available online at the Electronic Sawyer, http://esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html);
f. 3v: text purporting to be a grant of land in Kent by Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury to Christ Church, with a further note on grants of land in Kent to Christ Church (S1640 in Sawyer's list);
f. 3v: text purporting to record King Æthelred fulfilling or confirming a grant made by his son Æthelstan in Æthelstan's will (S1503x in Sawyer's list);
f. 3v: text purporting to be a grant of land by Ælfstan (also known as Lyfing), archbishop of Canterbury to Christ Church (S1641 in Sawyer's list);
ff. 4r-6r: Old English version, with some changes, of the document in ff. 2r-3v;
f. 5v: writ of King Edward confirming Sigweard and his wife's grant of land to Christ Church (S1090 in Sawyer's list);
f. 6r: statement by Ælfgifu (Emma), mother of King Edward, noting an forfeited estate she had acquired from Cnut and which Cnut had given to Christ Church (S1229 in Sawyer's list);
f. 6r: grant by Æthelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury, to Christ Church (S1389 in Sawyer's list);
f. 6r: grant of land by Thored to Christ Church (S1222 in Sawyer's list);
f. 6v: text purporting to be a grant and confirmation of land by King Edward the Confessor to Christ Church (S1047 in Sawyer's list);
f. 6v: list of estates in Old English, with some erasures;
f. 7r: text entitled 'Bonifacius papa Æthelberto regi Anglorum';
f. 7v: letter from Pope Sergius to the bishops of Britain.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102422
041-001102423 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius A III : Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 2–7 : Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman documents - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0553]/040-001102422[0001]/041-001102423
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Claudius_A_III (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 11th century-1st quarter of 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury: these all documents pertain to Christ Church and were originally copied into Cotton Tiberius A II, which was at Christ Church by the mid to late 10th century (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 185). Other records which were excised from Cotton MS Tiberius A II are now contained in Cotton Faustina B VI, vol. 1, ff. 95, 98–100. These leaves were detached before 1621, when they were listed as part of Cotton Claudius A III and not part of Cotton Tiberius A II in Cotton's catalogue (Harley 6018, no. 6-7).
Provenance:
? Prince Henry of England (d. 1612) (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 121).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Davis, G. R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue (London, 1958), no. 178.
Gneuss, Helmut 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. 362.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 185.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books 2nd edn. (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35.
Ker, Neil R., ‘Membra disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1937–38), pp. 130–31.
Keynes, Simon and others (ed.), The Electronic Sawyer, website (accessed 21 January 2016), [http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/289.html].
Sawyer, P. H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)