Hereford, Cathedral Library, P. i. 2

Present Location
Repository
Shelfmark

P. i. 2

Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

119

Gnuess/Lapidge

266

Summary

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).  

Manuscript Items
  1. Itemfols 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

  2. Itemfol. 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

  3. Itemfol. 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

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Codex


Hand Description


Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Owen Roberson (August 2010) with the assistance of Joanna Green (September 2012), with reference to published scholarship.


History

Provenance

Hereford

Bibliography

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)