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Charters have provided historians with fundamental source material for understanding Anglo-Saxon England, complementing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other literary sources. They are catalogued in Peter Sawyer 's Annotated List and are usually referred to in the specialist literature by their Sawyer number (e.g. S 407).
Cartularium Saxonicum is a three-volume collection of Anglo-Saxon charters published from 1885 to 1893 [2] by Walter de Gray Birch (1842–1924), then working in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library. The most recent edition was released on May 24, 2012, by Cambridge University Press. [3]
The Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici is a collection of documents from the Anglo-Saxon period preserved in manuscripts held by various libraries in England. [1] Published in six volumes between 1839 and 1848, this was the first collected edition of the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters.
The first section, traditionally titled the Liber Wigorniensis, is a collection of Anglo-Saxon charters and other land records, most of which are organized geographically. The second section, Hemming's Cartulary proper, combines charters and other land records with a narrative of deprivation of property owned by the church of Worcester.
Bookland (Old English: bōcland) was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter. Land held without a charter was known as folkland (Old English: folcland). [1] The distinction in meaning between these terms is a consequence of Anglo-Saxon land law. The concept of bookland arose in the seventh ...
Cartularium Saxonicum: A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo-Saxon History. Vol. (3 vols). Walter de Gray Birch (1902). A History of Neath Abbey. Walter de Gray Birch. History of the Scottish Seals. Vol. (2 vols). Walter de Gray Birch. Domesday Book: A popular account of the Exchequer Manuscript so called. Vol. (2 vols).
The New Minster Charter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript that was likely composed by Bishop Æthelwold [2] and presented to the New Minster in Winchester by King Edgar in the year 966 AD to commemorate the Benedictine Reform. [3] [4] It is now part of the British Library's collection.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Charters of Abingdon, part 1. Anglo-Saxon Charters 7. Porter, D. W. 2011. "The Anglo-Latin ...