Manuscripts

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

English, Latin
s. xvⁱⁿ
English manuscripts
parchment

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

England Chichester, West Sussex Record Office

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

No description available

See more Athelney AbbeyAthelney Abbey

No description available

Later provenance: EnglandEngland

No description available

See more ass. with William Wyndham [3rd baronet, d. 1740]Wyndham (William) ... 3rd baronet, d. 1740

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more George HarbinHarbin (George)

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more 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

No description available

See more Petworth HousePetworth House

No description available

See more 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

See more 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.

English manuscripts