Textus Roffensis
The Textus Roffensis, or in full, Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum ("The Book of the Church of Rochester through Bishop Ernulf"), refers to a manuscript in which two originally separate manuscripts written about the same time, between 1122 and 1124, are bound together. It is catalogued as Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5 and is currently held in the Kent County Archives, Maidstone.
The two books were brought together around 1300[1]. It is thought they were written by a single scribe.
The first part collects the Anglo-Saxon laws from between the conversion of King Æthelberht of Kent (c. 560–616) and the coronation charter of Henry I in 1100. The second part is the oldest of the Rochester Cathedral registers.
Over the centuries the combined book has had been recovered on several occasions, and has been in the custody of various places; it is now held at the Medway Studies Centre in Rochester, Kent.
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Further reading
- Richards, Mary P. Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library Rochester Cathedral Priory. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988.
- Sawyer, Peter. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, vol. VII: Textus Roffensis, Part I. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1957.
- Sawyer, Peter. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, vol. XI: Textus Roffensis, Part II. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1962.
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