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The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century Volume I Legislation and its Limits

Title:

The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century Volume I Legislation and its Limits

Author:

Wormald, P.

Location:

Oxford

Notes:

• CCCC MS 96 Mention of the fact that the ’Chronicle’ of John Brompton as found in CCCC MS 96 contains a collection of Anglo-Saxon legal texts that were published by Twysden and, when supplemented by other manuscripts, by Thorpe, p. 82 n. 4
• CCCC MS 173 Mention of CCCC MS 173 as one MS (among several others) containing King Alfred’s Domboc and a brief recapitulation of the discussion at pp. 163-73, pp. 265-6 Discussion of the relationship between CCCC MS 173 and BL Cotton Otho B.XI, pp. 174-5, 180-81 Description of CCCC MS 173 in general and of the Anglo-Saxon laws as found in it in particular; stated that the laws were written contemporaneously with the chronicle and perhaps even copied in order to be included with it; rehearses the arguments concerning the possible origins of the MS, pp. 163-73 Brief mention of Alfred’s laws as found in CCCC MS 173 and their relationship to the Christian world view of pre-Conquest England, p. 481 Description of CCCC MS 173 as ’an assembly of booklets’, p. 202 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 173 contains both chronicle and legal material and may have influenced Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis and BL Cotton Otho B.XI (’G’), p. 141
• CCCC MS 190 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 190 (siglum O) contains only three of the five Wulfstanian ’private’ texts, Mircna Laga, Ad and Hadbot; states that this may reflect the priorities that came with the work’s origins in Worcester, pp. 391-2 Discussion of CCCC MS 190, stating that it was once at Exeter but probably originated in Worcester, pp. 220-24 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 190 contains one of the earliest English versions of the Tractatus de Antichristo by Adso of Montier-en-Der, p. 452 Table of the structure of CCCC MS 190 Pt. II, p. 222
• CCCC MS 190 & CCCC MS 265 Table comparing the contents of CCCC MS 190 with other manuscripts, among them CCCC MS 265, pp. 214-5
• CCCC MS 201 Discussion of the contents of the law codes of Aethelred contained in CCCC MS 201 (’D’) and their relationship to other manuscripts, pp. 332-3 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 201 contains vernacular versions of Aethelstan’s ordinance regarding tithes, pp. 295, 302 Description of CCCC MS 201 with a discussion of the contents including 75% of Wulfstan’s original homilies, the first edition of the Institutes of Polity and collections of legal codes, pp. 206-10 Table of the structure of CCCC MS 201, pp. 204-5 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 201 contains the only known copy of The Northumbrian Priests’ Law, p. 396 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 201 (’D’) contains all five of Wulfstan’s ’private’ texts, p. 391 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 201 contains an account of the truce between the English and the Danes at Oxford in 1018, p. 346 States that all three texts of V, one recension of VII and both versions of VIII of Aethelred’s later law codes survive in CCCC MS 201 (’D’) and BL Cotton Nero A.I(B) (’G’), p. 330 Discussion of Wulfstan’s alterations to existing law codes as transmitted in ’Wulfstan’ manuscripts such as CCCC MS 201, p. 314 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 201 contains a version of Edmund’s law codes as interpreted by Wulfstan, p. 309 States that CCCC MS 201 contains one of Wulfstan’s Pastoral Letters, p. 222
• CCCC MS 265 Discussion of the law code IV Edgar as found in CCCC MS 265 and BL Cotton Nero E.I, pp. 317-20 Description of CCCC MS 265 and its contents, including the legal code IV Edgar, material for the pronouncement of excommunication and return to the church, the sanctification of oils on Maundy Thursday and a homily by Abbo of St Germain; states that the MS is a primitive ’canon law’ collection; states that is is from Worcester., pp. 210-24
• CCCC MS 383 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B), Textus Roffensis (’H’) and Quadripartitus (’Q’) contain the text of the Peace of Edward and Guthrum; discussion of the complex relationship of the three textual traditions., pp. 389-91 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) contains the Wifmannes Beweddung, as do Textus Roffensis (’H’) and Quadripartitus (’Q’); states that it is a tract on the vows of the marriage ceremony and how they related to the disposal of real assets; states that the text may be contemporary with Wulfstan, pp. 385-6 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) contains the formulary known as the Swerian, as do Textus Roffensis (’H’) and Quadripartitus (’Q’); discussion of the origins and transmission of this text, a collection of formularies for oaths c.900 A.D.+, pp. 383-4 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) and Quadripartitus (’Q’) contain the anonymous code known as the Dunsaete, a series of orders designed to establish peace among local communities, probably those either side of the River Wye c.994 A.D., pp. 381-2 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) and Quadripartitus (’Q’) contain the anonymous code known as The Hundred Ordinance and that both conflate it with the text of Alfred-Ine, pp. 378-9 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) contains the anonymous code known as Wergeld, as do Textus Roffensis (’H’) and Quadripartitus (’Q’); discussion of the origins and transmission of this code, pp. 374-8 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 contains vernacular text versions of the Instituta Cnuti and the Consiliatio Cnuti and their relationship with Latin versions of the same texts in Quadripartitus (’Q’), BL Harley 55 (’A’) and Nero A.i (A)(’G’), pp. 350-2 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 contains the laws of Aethelred II, as does Quadripartitus (’Q’), pp. 320-1 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 contains I and II of the laws of Edmund where they are paired in the same way as they are in Textus Roffensis (’H’) and Quadripartitus (’Q’), pp. 308-9 Brief discussion of the role of CCCC MS 383 in the transmission of the text of Aethelstan’s laws, pp. 291-4 Mention of the fact that Edward the Elder’s law codes survive in CCCC MS 383 (’B’), Quadripartitus (later editions ’Q’) and Textus Roffensis (’H’), pp. 286-7 Discussion of the ability to reconstruct the dissemination of the texts found in CCCC MS 383, the Quadripartitus and the Tetxtus Roffensis because of the order in which the many short texts were included in each. , pp. 248-9 Mention of the fact that the law codes in CCCC MS 383 have a tendency to conflate texts, for example, by adding distinct texts concerned with arson and judicial mesne process to the laws of Alfred-Ine, pp. 242-3 Description of CCCC MS 383 (’B’) as perhaps the earliest of three collections from in. 12th century which attempts to produce a complete record of Anglo-Saxon law codes; states that it was from St Paul’s London; discussion of the variants between the text of CCCC MS 383, the Quadripartitus and Textus Roffensis, pp. 228-36 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 contains two versions of the agreement between Alfred and Guthrum, pp. 132, 285 Observes that the Anglo-Saxon laws in the chronicle wrongly attributed to John Brompton were excerpted from a version of the Quadripartitus close to the version in John Rylands University Library MS Lat. 420 (siglum M) and BL Add. MS 49366 (siglum Hk), p. 90 n. 35 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) contains the formulary known as Hit Becwaed, as does Textus Roffensis (’H’); stated that the text in H and B is from a common progenitor, p. 384 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) contains the laws of Aethelred I, as do Textus Roffensis (’H’) and Quadripartitus (’Q’) but that the scribe of B conflated it with Alfred-Ine and the texts on arson and mesne process while that of Q uncoupled the Alfred-Ine domboc from the rest. , p. 321 Mention of CCCC MS 383 as one MS (among several others) containing King Alfred’s Domboc , p. 265 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 383 (siglum B) and Quadripartitus (’Q’) contain the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum and the Gerefa, texts relating to the managing of and rights in land and the duties of reeves; states that both had a common progenitor but distinct manuscript traditions, pp. 387-9

Reference Type:

Book

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