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Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, ff 20–82
- Record Id:
- 041-001102967
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0002a1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, ff 20–82
- Title:
- Cartulary of Chertsey Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 20r–49r: Foundation, royal, papal, and other grants to Chertsey abbey to 1260, with marginal additions in a 15th-century hand;
ff. 50r–69r: Parts of further royal charters, including writs and charters of Edward the Confessor;
ff. 69v–77r: Papal diplomas;
ff. 79r–82r: Grants and memoranda relating to the assignmet of rents to obedientiaries.
Decoration:
One framed initial in gold on a blue and rose ground with foliate decoration in blue, at the beginning (f. 20r). Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102965
041-001102967 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII : Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A XIII
Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, ff 20–82 : Cartulary of Chertsey Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0803]/040-001102965[0003]/041-001102967
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 13th century - 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Custodial History:
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Origin: The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey.
Provenance:
Arthur Agard (b. 1535/6, d. 1615), archivist and antiquary: this cartulary was borrowed from Cotton in 1612–15 (Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 159).
- Publications:
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Davis, G.R.C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 222.
Kelly, S.E., ed., Charters of Chertsey Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 19 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 1, 15 37-38.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, f. 101