Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 41
O. 2. 41
General Information
Manuscript is the Liber Eliensis. Latin charters for Ely include some English and English bounds in the Collectio Privilegiorum Eliensis Ecclesie of s. xiimed (1139-40).
Digital Surrogate:
http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/O_2_41/manuscript.php?…
1. Item: p. 87
Title: Charter: King Edgar to Ely; grant of 10 hides at Linden End in Cambridgeshire
Language: Latin with English and English bounds
Incipit: Ðis synd þa land into lintune ðe æþelferð geuðe his sunu leofric.
Explicit: ⁊ se fore specena cyning hit gesealde gode ⁊ sancte æðeldriðe his saule to alyset nesse.
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2. Item: p. 90
Title: Charter: King Edgar to Ely; grant of 10 hides at Stoke in Suffolk
Language: Latin with English bounds
Incipit: Ðis synt þara .x. hyda land gemæra æt stoce.
Explicit: of mersc mylne into þere brige.
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3. Item: p. 92
Title: Charter: King Edgar to Ely; grant of 10 hides at Stoke in Suffolk, final clause (in capitals)
Language: Latin with English bounds
Text: Ðis is ÐARA .X. hida land BOC ÆT STOCE ÐE ÆDGAR cyning GE BOCÆDE GODE AND SANCTE ÆÐeldryÐæ INTO ELIE ONECE Yrfe HIS SAYLE TO ALYSEDNESSE EALSǷA ÆLFÐRYD HIT GE ÆRNDODE HIS GE BEDDA.
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4. Item: pp. 93-94
Title: King Æthelred to Ely; grant of 20 hides at Littlebury in Essex
Language: Latin with English bounds
Rubric: Pri[u]ilegium æthelredi regis. is is þara .xx. hida boc æt lytlanbyrig | þe æþelred cyning ge bocede ⁊ hit gode re|alde ⁊ sancte æþeldriþe ⁊ hire halgan cinne into elie.
Explicit: ⁊ cæsterforda gemere ⁊ lytlanbyrig gemeræ.
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eSawyer, S 907
5. Item: p. 95
Title: Rubric for charter of King Cnut to Leofric and Ely; grant of land at Wood Ditton in Cambridgeshire
Language: Latin with English rubric
Rubric: De DITTUNE. Ðis is dittunes boc | þe ƿas gehƿyrfed ƿið cearflea.
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5. Item: p. 104
Title: Writ of Edward the Confessor appointing Wulfric as abbot of Ely
Language: English
Text: EADWARD cyninc gret ealle mine | biscopes ⁊ mine scirge|reuan ⁊ ealle mine þegenas onþam sciran | þer ꝥalande to liccat into HELI. freondlice. ⁊ ic | kyþe eoƿ. ꝥæt ic habbe ge unnen. Wlfrice ꝥæt ab|bodrice in HELI. on eallan þingan. binnan bur|gan ⁊ butan. toll ⁊ team. ⁊ infangen þeof. fyht|ƿite ⁊ fyrdƿite. hamsocne ⁊ gryꝥbryce. sitte | his mann þer þar he sitte. ƿyrce þeet he ƿyrce. | ⁊ nelle ic geþauian þæt ænig man of handa ateo | nan þæra þingæ. þæs ic him ge unnen hæbbe. god | eoƿ gehealde.
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Object Description
Codex
Parchment
22.5 x 16 inches
Foliated. 11 + 148
a4 (wants 1) | Kal.8 | 1-168 1712 188
23 lines to a page
Hand Description
Red initial letters.
Additional Information
Digital surrogate available at http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/O_2_41/manuscript.php?fullpage=1&startingpage=1 (accessed 30 July 2018)
History
Ely
Given to Trinity College, Cambridge by Roger Gale in 1738.
Laing, Margaret, 'Anchor texts and literary manuscripts in early Middle English', in Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, ed. Felicity Riddy, York Manuscripts Conferences 2 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 27-52
Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 39
Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters. An Annotated List and Bibliography, Guides and Handbooks 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), nos. S 780, S781, S 907, S 1100, http://www.esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/27.html (accessed 31 July 2018)
Georgia Henley