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- [late 16th cent.?] (Creation)
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9 ff. sewn together
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Archival history
Bought by C. D. Broad in a second-hand shop in Perry Vale, Forest Hill about 1905-7.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of C. D. Broad, 1924.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A copy of the beginning of the Textus Roffensis, with the Law of Æthelberht, the Law of Hlothhere and Eadric, the Law of Wihtred, and lists of Kings (West-Saxon genealogy) from Cerdic to Æthelred, with the descent of Cerdic from Woden. With some underlining in orange-red chalk.
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Language of material
- Old English
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Finding aids
Entry 32 in Simon Keynes' Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and other items of related interest in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge CEMERS, SUNY-Binghamton, 1992.
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Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Formerly bound with a copy of William Lambarde's Archaionomia (1568), now V.a.230 in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Another pen facsimile, dating from the 17th century may be found at O.10.38, (James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts entry 1490)
Publication note
Carl T. Berkhout, 'The Case of the Seventh Signature in the Folger Shakespeare Library', Shakespeare Quarterly, 76 (2025), 275-359, esp. 303-307 and 320.
S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: Records and Images (1981), pp. 104-6.
Notes area
Note
Carl T. Berkhout considers the transcription to be in the hand of Sir John Parker, son of Archbishop Matthew Parker.