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Rare Manuscripts Catalog
Calendars of Charters and Rolls in the Manuscript Collection of the
Bodleian Library
1101 - 2000
Property deeds predominate, with manorial court rolls and accounts, but there are also many more personal
documents like wills, inventories, marriage settlements, estate records and official papers such as commissions of
appointment of sheriffs, deputy lieutenants and army officers and taxation records. Together these documents and
bundles, some 35,000 in all, provide a mass of information on people and places all over the country. It has been the
Library‘s standard practice to calendar and index charters and rolls as a group apart from other manuscript material.
A calendar of those acquired before 1878 was published that year, but the many thousands of documents acquired
since then have hitherto been accessible only through hand-written calendar slips and index cards, available only in
the Bodleian Library. Publication of the calendar and index cards on microfiche, alongside the Library‘s working
copy of the 1878 Calendar heavily corrected and annotated by W.D. Macray, reveals for the first time the wealth of
documentation on local, social and economic history available in this under-used resource. Scholars can now carry
out much preliminary research in their own libraries before consulting the documents themselves. Indeed for many
research purposes sufficient information is contained in the calendars to make a visit to the Bodleian unnecessary.
Oxford, England
327 fiche
The Canterbury Psalter *
1100 - 1200
Written about 1150 at Canterbury by a monk named Eadwine who‘s full-page picture appears at the end. A fine
example of the Romanesque style of illumination.
Trinity College, Cambridge, Ms. R.17.1; On color microfilm
1 reel 35mm
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of John Alexander
Thynne, (fourth) Marquess of Bath *
1864
1 reel 35mm
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester,
Holkham Hall, William Roscoe and Sir Frederick Madden *
1816 - 1828
Holkham Ms. 770
3 reels 35mm
Chaundler, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Chaundler *
1457 - 1461
This manuscript was written when Chaundler was Chancellor of Oxford. 15 full-page illustrations, sensitively drawn
and delicately colored which, though English in origin, betray a certain Flemish influence.
On color microfilm; Trinity College, Cambridge, Ms. R.14.5
Cambridge, England
1 reel 35mm
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