The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Takako Kato

London, British Library, Cotton Domitian vii

Manumission

Date: s. ximed; s. xii

Summary:

Documents were added to the Liber Vitae of Durham between s. ix and s. xii. An Old English document added in s. ximed is a manumission in 12 lines, now imperfect. The first line of the text was deleted and a twelfth-century hand overwrote the female name 'Geatfleda'. As Ker (1957, p. 187) notes: 'the Liber Vitae was kept on the high altar at Durham'.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 47r

   Title (B.16.8.3): Congregation of St Cuthbert: Manumissions

   Incipit: (fol. 47r) [...]geaf freols for godes lufa

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 147

   Birch 1885-93, no.1254

2. Item: fol. 47v

   Title (B.16.8.2): Congregation of St Cuthbert: Grants

   Incipit: (fol. 47v) Her is gemearcod hu manega hyda landes þureð eorl betæht hafað into sancte cuðberht[es] stoƿe

   Note: A grant of land by Eorl Þyreð

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 147

   Robertson 1939, no.60

3. Item: fol. 47v

   Title (B.16.8.2.1.EM): Congregation of St Cuthbert: Grants [second part]

   Incipit: (fol. 47v) Her syleð norðman eorl into sancte cuðberhte

   Note: Grants of land by 'norðman eorl' and by 'ulfcytel osulfes sunu'

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 147

Administration Information:

Described by Takako Kato with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Birch, Walter de Gray, ed., Cartularium Saxonicum: A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo-Saxon History (London: Whiting and Company; Chas J. Clark, 1885-93)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 147

Robertson, A. J, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)