Writ to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry, with accompanying grants related to Chester

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Title: Writ to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry, with accompanying grants related to Chester
Creator: Edward, King of England, approximately 1003-1066
Published / Created: [between 1275 and 1299]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manscript document, on parchment, in a forged late eleventh-century script, purporting to be a charter issued by Edward the Confessor to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry. Accompanied by six other thirteenth century grants
Description: In Old English (thirteenth-century) and Latin.
Provenance: Phillipps MS 27963. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 6 items ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Writs England 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Edward, King of England, approximately 1003-1066.
Subject (Topic): Forgery of manuscripts
Writs
Subjects: Edward, King of England, approximately 1003-1066
Forgery of manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Writs > Early works to 1800
England > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Philipps, Thomas > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Edward, King of England, Writ to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry (Takamiya MS 120). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.