Source: CharterS953

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Description

King Cnut to St German's minster, Cornwall; grant of privileges.

Charter information
Sawyer 953
Birch ---
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Exeter ex St German's
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 1018
Scholarly Source Dating 1018

Notes

Bishop 1955, pp. 194-5, on script; Chaplais 1966, pp. 22-3 (no. 22), probably forged soon after the Norman Conquest, scribe also appears in manuscripts from Exeter (= 1981, XV pp. 22-3); HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent, but 'original' a forgery; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 41, p. 100 n. 51, p. 126 n. 136, Exeter forgery modelled on S 880; Olson 1989, p. 77 n. 115; Dumville 1993, pp. 132-4, on script; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, pp. 173, 238, suspicious, local production; Keynes 1994/1, p. 52 n. 51, p. 68 n. 143, probably spurious but witness-list from a genuine text

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
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Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Sanders, W.B. Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts     Exeter 10

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Sanders, W.B. Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts     Exeter 10