A.D. 597 x 604. Augustine, bishop of Canterbury, to the minster of SS Peter and Paul (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of privileges. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 46-194v, f. 47r-v (s. xiv 2)
2. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 23v (s. xv in.)
3. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 24r (s. xv in.; facsimile of lost single sheet; Hunter 1973, pl. 3; Kelly, St Augustine's, pl. 2)
4. London, British Library, Add. 53710, ff. 3v-4v (s. xiv/xv)
5. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 9r-v (s. xiii 2)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, ff. 39v-40r (s. xiii med.)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XX, f. 2r-v (s. xii 1; incomplete)
8. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. II, ff. 7v-8v (s. xii 2)
9. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, ff. 39r-40r (s. xiii)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 121-2, ex MSS 2, 3; Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 1763, ex MS 4; Mon. Angl., i. 25, ex ? MS 8; Alford 1663, ii. 180-1; Wilkins, Concilia, iv. 729-30; K, 5, ex MS 2 etc; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 127-8; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 119-21, ex MSS 2, 3; Thorpe, pp. 3-5, ex MSS 2, 3, 5; HS, pp. 58-9, ex K etc; B, 7, ex MSS 2, 5 etc; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 5, ex B; Morris 1995, pp. 107-9, ex B; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 4, ex MSS 2, 7, 8

Comments:

Deanesly 1941a, pp. 49-50; Levison 1946, cf. p. 346, spurious, probably forged in the late 11th century; Scharer 1982, p. 59, spurious; Kelly 1988; Morris 1995, pp. 89-98, some authentic basis; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 21-2, spurious