Manuscripts

Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, MS PHA 11601 Cartulary of Athelney Abbey

  • English, Latin
  • s. xvin
  • English manuscripts
  • parchment
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Petworth House Archives
Shelfmark
PHA 11601
Type
cartularies
Provenance and related aspects
Language
English, Latin
Date
s. xvin
Early 15th century, with some additions made later in the same century (Keynes).
Origin, provenance
Origin: EnglandEngland
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Athelney AbbeyAthelney Abbey
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Later provenance: EnglandEngland
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ass. with Wyndham (William) [3rd baronet, d. 1740]Wyndham (William) ... 3rd baronet, d. 1740
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Harbin (George)Harbin (George)
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Sir William Wyndham, of Orchard Wyndham, is known to have been in possession of the manuscript. In 1735, the antiquary George Harbin produced a transcript, which survives as Bath, Downside Abbey, MS Phillips 4810 (parts missing from this manuscript were discovered in the 1990s).
Later provenance: EnglandEngland
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Petworth HousePetworth House
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It is probable, according to Keynes, that the manuscript travelled with Wyndham’s son, Charles, when he moved to Petworth House in Sussex.
Later provenance: Chichester, West Sussex Record Office
Chichester, West Sussex Record Office
West Sussex
County record office holding the archives on behalf of West Sussex.

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In June 2001, Alison McCann, archivist of West Sussex Record Office, discovered the manuscript lying “at the back of a dark shelf” (Keynes).
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
parchment
Foliation
245 ff.
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Keynes, Simon, “The cartulary of Athelney Abbey rediscovered”, Monastic Research Bulletin 7 (2001): 2–5.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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August 2022