The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Additional 9381

Manumissions

Date: s. xi/xii

Summary:

The later entries in a total of 51 records in English of grants at St Petroc’s Bodmin. All the grants are written in blank space and margins of a s. ix/x gospel book in continental caroline minuscule. Ker 1957 (p. 159) notes that the manuscript is from Bodmin.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1, 8, 141, in a blank space on fol. 13, in the margins of fols 2-7v, 133v

   Title (B.16.4): Bodmin: Manumissions

   Note: According to Ker 1957, 'ten out of a total of fifty-one records of grants of manumission at St. Petroc's, Bodmin. Some entries now erased and illegible were on fols 6v, 108r-v.'

   Bibliography:

   British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

   Ker 1957, item 126, p. 159

   Förster 1930, p. 83

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of George Younge, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (British Library, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/searchMSNo.asp; accessed 2010)

Förster, Max, 'Die Freilassungsurkunden des Bodmin-Evangeliars', in A Grammatical Miscellany offered to Ottto Jespersen, ed. by N. Bøgholm, A. Brusendorff and C. A. Bodelsen (Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1930), pp. 77-99

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 126