"S 786 is one of the so-called Orthodoxorum charters, a group of documents which provide important evidence about the Anglo-Saxon chancery, the development of charters in the tenth century, and the history of Pershore Abbey and the... more
"S 786 is one of the so-called Orthodoxorum charters, a group of documents which provide important evidence about the Anglo-Saxon chancery, the development of charters in the tenth century, and the history of Pershore Abbey and the tenth-century Benedictine reforms. The document has therefore received a great deal of attention over the past century or so, but this attention has been focussed on the surviving tenth-century single sheet, and so a second,
significantly different version of the text has lain unnoticed. This second version is preserved in a copy made by John Joscelyn, Latin Secretary to Archbishop Matthew Parker. Among the material uniquely preserved in this copy are Old English charter bounds for Wyegate (GL), Cumbtune (Compton, GL?) and part of the bounds probably for Lydney (GL), as well as a reference to a grant by Bishop Werferth of Worcester. In this paper both versions of the document are discussed and are presented together for the first time, and a translation of the single sheet is provided. The history of the two versions is discussed in some detail, and the text of a twelfth-century letter which refers to the charter is also edited and translated."
... 1, show none of the features which are characteristic of Anglo-Caroline minuscule from about the second quarter of the eleventh century.22 If this document is a forgery, then, it was surely written not long after the purported date,... more
... 1, show none of the features which are characteristic of Anglo-Caroline minuscule from about the second quarter of the eleventh century.22 If this document is a forgery, then, it was surely written not long after the purported date, and the script suggests no more than thirty-five or ...
This article discusses differences in two versions of the Anglo-Saxon charter boundaries for Powick and Leigh (both in Worcestershire). The two versions are found in London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii.6 (a tenth-century single... more
This article discusses differences in two versions of the Anglo-Saxon charter boundaries for Powick and Leigh (both in Worcestershire). The two versions are found in London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii.6 (a tenth-century single sheet) and BL Cotton Vitellius D.vii (a sixteenth-century transcript). Significant differences between the two texts reflect probable rearrangement of the estates in the late tenth or early eleventh century.
