Hereford, Cathedral Library, P. i. 2
P. i. 2
General Information
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Copied into blank space at the end of a quire, two documents: fol. 134rv, record of a shire-moot during the reign of Cnut, and fol. 135, a land purchase datable 1043-46. Ker proposes: 'The manuscript was no doubt at Hereford when the OE documents were entered' (1957, p. 156).
- Item: fols 134r-v
Title (B.15.5.22): Charters: Bishops' Charters: Documents: Dispute between Edwin and his mother
Incipit: (fol. 134r) Her swutelað on ðissum gewrite þæt an scirgemot sæt æt ægelnoðes stane
Note: The record of the shire-moot in the reign of Cnut
Bibliography:
Hickes 1705, p. 2
Judge 1934, p. 94
Ker 1957, item 119
Robertson 1939, no. 78
Sawyer 1462
- Item: fol. 135r
Title (B.15.5.28): Charters: Bishops' Charters: Documents: Memorandum of Leofwine's land purchase
Incipit: (fol. 135r) Her swutelað on þissum gewrite þæt leofwine leofflæde broðor
Note: The record of a purchase of land, datable 1043-46.
Bibliography:
Hickes 1705, p. 9
Ker 1957, item 119
Robertson 1939, no. 99
- Item: fol. 135v
Title (B.15.7.31.EM): Documents: Incomplete Texts
Incipit: (fol. 135v) Her [...]
Note: Three lines of erased writing; traces of letters remain (Ker 1957, p. 156)
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 119
Sawyer 1469
Object Description
Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Owen Roberson (August 2010) with the assistance of Joanna Green (September 2012), with reference to published scholarship.
History
Hereford
Hickes, George, Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus, 5 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1705)
Judge, C. B., 'Anglo-Saxonica in Hereford Cathedral Library', Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 16, no. 89 (1934)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 119
Robertson, A. J, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 2nd edn (1939; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)
Sawyer, Peter, The Electronic Sawyer (CCH, King's College, London, http://www.esawyer.org.uk/, 2012; accessed in 2018)
Owen Roberson