A.D. 997 (25 July). King Æthelred to Ælfwold, bishop; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Sandford, Devon. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Exeter (ex Crediton)

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 34 (s. x ex.; OS Facs., iii. 35)

Printed:

Hooke 1990a, p. 21, bounds only; Hooke 1994, p. 181, bounds only

Printed and Translated:

O.S. Facs., iii. 35

Comments:

Rose-Troup 1942, p. 259, on bounds; Finberg, ECDC, no. 44; Bishop 1955, p. 195, possibly authentic; Chaplais 1965, p. 60, scribe also wrote S 1492, the bishop's will (= 1973, p. 42); Chaplais 1966, p. 21 (no. 20), contemporary, seems to have been used as a model for S 1019 (= 1981, XV p. 21); Finberg 1969, pp. 38-44, authentic, with discussion of bounds (= 1968, pp. 65-70); Forsberg 1970, p. 74, on detail of bounds; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent, diploma probably original; Keynes 1980, pp. 120-1, 255, authentic but possibly a slightly later copy; Chaplais 1981, XV Addendum, original; Chaplais 1985, p. 45, original, probably written by a Crediton scribe; Ker, Catalogue, p. xxxii, on script; Hooke 1990a, pp. 202-4, 207-9, on bounds; BA Facs., p. 6 (no. 18), possibly a copy; Dumville 1993, p. 24 n. 79, on script; Hooke 1994, pp. 181-4, on bounds; Thompson 2006, pp. 21 et passim, on script

Show all data

  • Metadata

    Old Text

    • + Regnante in perpetuum Domino nostro Iesu Christi . Dum architectoris prouidentia omnis creatura in principio formata formoseque creata sunt . ac in multimodis et diuersis speciebus olimphum cum sideribus rotari suo nutu perficiens . quique frugiferis se