Manuscript: Soc. Antiq. 60, 6-73
Description (from English Manuscripts 1060-1220 Project)
Black Book of Peterborough, or Liber Niger. S. xii2/4.
Fols 6-73 contains the cartulary of Peterborough Abbey, which includes a list of books, lands, vestments etc. given to Peterborough Abbey by Bishop Æthelwold (fols 39v-40v), a list of sureties for lands (fol. 46) (Robertson 1939, nos. XXXIX, XL) and a further five Old English documents (at fols 46v-55v). The manuscript's Latin contents--charters and land tenure materials--are apparent copies of texts dating from 664 to the twelfth century. The rest of the manuscript contains charters and other documents in many different thirteenth- and fourteenth-century hands, with some fifteenth-century additions. Fols 209-19 contains Les estabilissemenz le Roy Edward. The manuscript, together with its sources, its analogues, and its historical context, are analysed by Morris 2006.
Current location
- Repository
- Society of Antiquaries
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- 60
Other information
- Name
- Black Book of Peterborough; Liber Niger
- Catalogue Numbers
- D. 754
- EM LSA.60
- Format
- Cartulary
- Date
- s. xii2/4
English Manuscripts 1060-1220 Project (EM LSA.60)
Black Book of Peterborough, or Liber Niger. S. xii2/4.
Fols 6-73 contains the cartulary of Peterborough Abbey, which includes a list of books, lands, vestments etc. given to Peterborough Abbey by Bishop Æthelwold (fols 39v-40v), a list of sureties for lands (fol. 46) (Robertson 1939, nos. XXXIX, XL) and a further five Old English documents (at fols 46v-55v). The manuscript's Latin contents--charters and land tenure materials--are apparent copies of texts dating from 664 to the twelfth century. The rest of the manuscript contains charters and other documents in many different thirteenth- and fourteenth-century hands, with some fifteenth-century additions. Fols 209-19 contains Les estabilissemenz le Roy Edward. The manuscript, together with its sources, its analogues, and its historical context, are analysed by Morris 2006.
Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland (rev. ed.) (D. 754)
'Liber Niger'. Composite misc. register, containing a survey of the abbey's manors, c. 1125–28, fos. 6–74; copes of early royal, papal and other charters passim; misc. surveys, pleas, lists of fees and other material rel. to the abbey's lands, 12th–14th cent., incl. occasional charters, annals and other historical material; and an inventory of the abbot's muniments, fos. 81–83.