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Bounds of land in Winchester. English

Archive:

Winchester, Nunnaminster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 2965, f. 40v (s. ix/x; Dumville 1992, pl. 2, between pp. 98 and 99; Brown 1996, p. 200, fig. 13)

Printed:

B, 630

Comments:

Biddle and Hill 1971, pp. 73-4, dates from before death of Ealhswith in 902 ; Biddle 1975, pp. 127-9, 234, with map ; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 234, 235, 273, 322 ; Rahtz and Bullough 1977, pp. 23, 25-6 ; Parkes 1983, pp. 131-2, on script ; Biddle 1983, p. 119, on street used in bounds ; Dumville 1987, p. 164, on script ; Nelson 1991, p. 65 ; Dumville 1992, pp. 83-5, 92 n. 184, on script, estate-survey may have been drawn up before Ealhswith's death, but the MS copy could well be later in date ; Foot 2000, II. 244, 246 ; Rumble 2002, no. I, on bounds, with map; on MS ; Thompson 2006, p. 58, on script ; Birch 1889a, p. 96 ; Ker, Catalogue, p. lix, 308-9 (no. 237), hand similar to that of 891 annal in Parker Chronicle; dates s. ix ; Finberg, ECW, no. 177

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