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St John's College MS 346

Indenture

Contents

Language(s): Latin

'Willelmus filius Helie de Englefeld Omnibus hominibus et amicis suis salutem Vestra nouerit uniuersitas me dedisse et concessisse Willielmo cum Barba unam hidam terre In Merstona cum suis pertinenciis […] ' [in return for a mark of silver annually]

Indenture

The document also refers to previous actions ‘in curia domini mei Geruasii paganelli’; Gervaise is also the first witness, the second ‘Isabel com’ uxore sua’; and the list includes ‘Alano de Witachre’, whom a pencilled note (s. xix) on the dorse identifies with a person who appears 33 Henry II, i.e. 1186.

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: Vellum. Folded and cut with two vellum tags for seals, the seals no longer present.
Dimensions (leaf): 95 mm (as folded over) × 163 mm.

Layout

12 lines of text.

Hand(s)

Written in transitional protogothic bookhand/gothic textura.

History

Origin: s. xii2/2 ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

The inked accession number 28330, from the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps at Middle Hill.

Purchased at Sotheby, 13 April 1981, lot 184 (a Phillipps sale) from the Leishman Fund.

Record Sources

Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Availability

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-10: First online publication

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