Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, English (Old)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Selden, John, 1584-1654 [Browse]
• Hale, Matthew, 1609-1676 [Browse]
• Scheide, William H. (William Hurd), 1914-2014 [Browse]

Related name

• St. Albans Abbey [Browse]

Bookseller

• H.P. Kraus (Firm) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Wills—England—10th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Manuscript will.

Notes

Origin: Written in England, probably at the Abbey of St. Albans, ca. 990.

Language note

Text in Anglo-Saxon.

Provenance

Provenance: Belonged to the Abbey of St. Albans in the 12th century; belonged to Sir Matthew Hale in the 17th century who probably received it from John Selden; acquired at Sotheby's, London, Dec. 10, 1969.

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 140.

Other format(s)

Photoreproduced facsimile version; Published as The Will of Aethelgifu : a tenth century Anglo-Saxon manuscript / translated and examined by Dorothy Whitelock, with a note on the document by Neil Ker, and analyses of the properties, livestock and chattels concerned by Lord Rennell. Oxford : Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club by Oxford U.P., 1968.

OCLC

177446501

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