London. British Library, Arundel MS 153

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
Library
London. British Library
Shelfmark
  • British Library, Arundel MS 153
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Agent
Description
  • This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England.Contents:ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire.ff. 5r-8r: Dorset.ff. 8v-15v: Somerset.ff. 16r-23r: Devon.ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall.ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex.ff. 27v-31v: Hertfordshire.ff. 31v-35v: Buckinghamshire.ff. 35v-38v: Oxfordshire.ff. 38v-45r: Gloucestershire.ff. 45r-48v: Worcestershire.f. 48v: Herefordshire.ff. 49r-50v: Cambridgeshire.ff. 50v-53r: Huntingdonshire.ff. 53r-58v: Bedfordshire.ff. 58v-62r: Northamptonshire.ff. 62v-66v: Leicestershire.ff. 66v-70r: Warwickshire.ff. 70r-72v: Staffordshire.ff. 73r-78r: Shropshire.ff. 78r-78v: Cheshire.ff. 79r-84r: Nottinghamshireff. 84r-v: Rutland.ff. 85r-86v: City of York.The manuscript contains a later addition:f. 1r: Early modern table of contents listed according to county.Decoration:Alternating red and blue initials, one or two lines high, with red or blue pen-flourishing in the alternate colour. Rubrics and running titles, indicating the county under examination, in red.Early modern marginal sketches, mostly of human figures, animals, and hunting scenes, on ff. 24r, 32v, 36r, 39v, 42r, 46v, 50r, 51v-52r, 53v, 59v-60r, 62r, 66r, 70r, 72r, 79v, 82r.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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  • Preferred form
    • Wales (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • Wales
    Other form
    • Pays de Galles (?)
    • Grande Bretagne (Pays de Galles ?)
    • Gran Bretanya (Gal·les?)
    • Großbritannien (Wales?)
    • Great Britain (Wales?)
    • Gran Bretaña (Gales?)
    • Gal·les
    • Gales
    • Pays de Galles
    • Welsh
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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