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A.D. 930 for 934 (Nottingham, 7 June). King Athelstan to the church of St Peter, York: grant of land at Amounderness, Lancs. Latin with bounds

Archive:

York

MSS:

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 9 (S.C. 4151), ff. 4v-5r(s. xvii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), ff. 42r-43r(s. xvii)
3. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, f. 59r-v(s. xiv)
4. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 2, ff. 78v-79v(s. xiv; ex MS 5)
5. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. III, f. 69r-v(s. xiii ex.; misdated 930)

Printed:

Farrer, EYC, no. 1, ex MSS 3, 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi, pt 3, p. 1176 (no. 5); Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 86-89, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; Mon. Angl., iii, 129-30; K, 352, ex MSS 3, 4 (conflation); B, 703, ex K, 1344, ex MS 3

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 104 (pp. 548-51)

Comments:

Farrer, EYC, pp. 4-5, quotes Stevenson's opinion that it is spurious, but accepts it as authentic; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 16-17, Charter from the York archive that is likely authentic, although there are several difficulties and questions remaining regarding this, p. 51-52, Discussion of charter as highly valuable for providing information regarding Aethelstan's attempts to establish his rule in Northumbria following his 927 conquest of York, p. 70, Discussion of charter as post-Conquest copy preserved in a cartulary at York, p. 71, Discussion of charter's preservation in the 14th century manuscript, the Magnum Registrum Album, p. 78, Discussion of charter's preservation in BL Cotton Claudius B. iii, p. 79, Discussion of charter's preservation in York, Minster Library and Archives, L 2/1, p. 81, Discussion of charter's preservation in Bodleian, Dodsworth 9, p. 81, Discussion of charter's preservation in Bodleian, Dodsworth 125, p. 89-97, Discussion of charter as authentic, albeit with some alterations, the divergences between versions of it in different manuscripts, it's production by "Aethelstan A," its suspicious aspects, the bounds of the property it grants, and the historical context in which it was produced, p. 243, Charter from the York archive that provides insight into the political situation in Northumbria under Aethelstan; Stenton 1955, p. 30 n. 3, possibly genuine but corrupt and obscure in places; O'Donovan 1972, p. 36, indiction, concurrent and epact for 934; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 78; Drögereit 1952, pp. 60-1, spurious; Karkov 2004, pp. 80-1, on imagery; Keynes 1986, p. 84, cited; O'Donovan 1973, pp. 101, 111; Nelson 1999a, p. 116; Hart, ECNE, no. 119, authentic basis; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 159, Possibly spurious example of a charter from 934 in the "Aethelstan A" style, likely one of the last documents produced by the scribe responsible for this dominant diplomatic form of the mid 10th century; Keynes 1985, p. 173, cited; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; Woolf 1998, p. 191, bounds "far too extensive to be an estate"; Sawyer 1983, pp. 286-7; Stenton 1971, p. 342, cited; Hart 1992, p. 443; Bullough 1972, p. 472 n. 39, on Latin vocabulary; Whitelock, EHD, p. 548, discrepancy in dating clause probably owing to later tampering, charter may be genuine, certainly has genuine witness-list, on meeting-place