[WITHDRAWN] "Textus Roffensis"

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12th century-14th century

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1 volume

The "Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum" (The Book of the Church of Rochester through Bishop Ernulf), or "Textus Roffensis", is more properly two distinct books, though written at about the same time, and largely by the same scribe, which were only bound together sometime after 1300. The first part contains one of the most important of all surviving collections of Anglo-Saxon laws, from the conversion of King Aethelberht of Kent to the coronation charter of King Henry I of 1100. The second part is the oldest and most precious of the cathedral registers. It can best be described as a memorandum book, created for ease of reference and security. Both parts were compiled in part from individual or single sheet original documents or exemplars, many now lost, in part from the collective memory of the Cathedral community.

Digitised version available at http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/Man4MedievalVC~4~4~990378~142729.