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Roger Bigod deed : manuscript, ca. 1201-1205.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 211
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bigod, Roger, Earl of Norfolk, -1221.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Real property--England--Suffolk.
- Real property.
- Windmills--England--History.
- Windmills.
- History.
- England.
- England--Suffolk.
- Genre:
- deeds
- legal documents
- seals (artifacts)
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 27838, number written in ink on verso).
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3057, probably to Paul Grinke (Eye, Suffolk; book label on former housing, with 1974 written on it in ink).
- Appears in Sam Fogg Ltd.'s cat. 16 (1995), no. 44.
- Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 42.
- Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
- Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 111 x 167 mm
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1201-1205.
- Language Note:
- In Latin.
- Summary:
- Record of 3 grants of land in Suffolk by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, to the sons of magister William de Risinges (Walter, Simon, Eustace, and Peter), for which Bigod received a riding horse, a windmill with a rood of land (possibly the earliest mention of a windmill in Suffolk), and an annual fee. Written in 17 long lines, in a chancery script, with the central part of a wax seal still remaining on a parchment tag. The remnant of the seal shows part of an equestrian figure on one side and a heraldic lion on the other.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 147 (LJS 211).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 211
- OCLC:
- 727069709
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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