Cartularium Saxonicum

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Cartularium Saxonicum
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Frontispiece of the first volume.
Author Walter de Gray Birch
Discipline Anglo-Saxon Charters
Publisher Whiting and Company
Published1885 (vol.1), 1887 (vol.2), 1893 (vol.3), 1899 (index)
No. of books3 (+index)

Cartularium Saxonicum ('Saxon Charters') is a three-volume collection of Anglo-Saxon charters published from 1885 to 1893 [1] by Walter de Gray Birch, then working in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library. It built on the work of the earlier Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, expanding its scope.

Contents

Background and Scope

Birch conceived of the work as an update to Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici some four decades earlier. He explains: [2]

"... the remarkable anomaly became very prominently fixed before my mind that, while the justly celebrated Codex Diplomaticus (1839-1848) of the late Mr. J. M. Kemble occupies a position in literature achieved by no other collection of historical evidence in the world, the texts themselves are in a large proportion of cases edited incorrectly, and that, in some instances, to a serious extent."

Birch's work formed the basis of William George Searle's Onomasticon and, most recently, projects such as the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. [3] [4]

VolDate PublishedCharter DatesNumber of ChartersCharter Numbers
11885430-8394271-427
21887840-925412428-839
31893925-959512840-1354

In total, Birch published 1354 charters covering the years 430-959 AD. [5]

Bibliography

All volumes were scanned by Google from the Harvard university library collection and made available via Archive.org:

The most recent edition was released on May 24, 2012, by Cambridge University Press. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ S. Keynes (24 November 2005). The Diplomas of King Aethlred 'the Unready' 978-1016. Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–. ISBN   978-0-521-02308-5.
  2. ↑ Walter de Gray Birch (1885). Cartularium saxonicum: a collection of charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history (in Latin). Harvard University. Whiting. pp. vi–vii.
  3. ↑ "PASE". pase.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-01-04.
  4. ↑ Searle, William George (1897). Onomasticon anglo-saxonicum : a list of Anglo-Saxon proper names from the time of Beda to that of King John. PIMS - University of Toronto. Cambridge : University Press. pp. vii.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  5. ↑ Walter de Gray Birch (1893). Cartularium saxonicum: a collection of charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history (in Latin). Harvard University. Whiting. pp. xiii.
  6. ↑ Walter de Gray Birch (24 May 2012). Cartularium Saxonicum -. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-04508-7.
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