Current Version

The current version of the 'Classified List of Anglo-Saxon Charters on Single Sheets', originally compiled in the early 1990s (based on examination of the published facsimiles, and of the manuscripts in the British Library and elsewhere), can be downloaded from here, as a working aid when using the database.

Single sheets are numbered separately, in a single sequence, for ease of cross-reference within the list, and for other purposes.

Each of the numbered entries in the list comprises the following information:

  • the number of the particular document in Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters (abbreviated S), followed by a reference to a printed text (in brackets), using conventional abbreviations;
  • the identity of the person (usually the king) in whose name the document runs, or some other general indication of its nature, with the apparent or stated date of the text (in brackets);
  • the library shelfmark of the single sheet in question, followed by a reference to a published facsimile, in BMFacs., OSFacs. or BAFacs.;
  • the name of the religious house in the archives of which the single sheet is or was preserved.

In several cases additional information is supplied in association the main entry. These notes are to be taken in the spirit in which they are provided: as working notes, e.g. on significant physical features of the single sheet, or on the identification of the scribe in other charters or different contexts, sometimes with basic bibliography. The notes are by no means definitive or exhaustive, and are simply intended at this stage to draw attention to some of the more obvious and interesting physical features of the charters themselves. It is intended that they will be revised as work progresses, and as understanding improves, and that the information will be incorporated in the database.

 

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