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Chronica (s. xiii); Cartularium (s. xiv) ('Magnum registrum album') — Lichfield, Staffordshire. Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin and St Chad.


Provenance: Lichfield, Staffordshire. Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin and St Chad.
Location: Cathedral , Lichfield
Shelfmark: 28
Author/Title: Chronica (s. xiii); Cartularium (s. xiv) ('Magnum registrum album')
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Provenance inferred from contents. Copies of the Chester and Burton annals occupy fols. i*–5*, 1–77.

Fragments (8 leaves) of a missal in the binding (s. xii ex.). Script of chronicle said by Savage to resemble BL Vespasian E.iii (Burton).

See H. E. Savage, Magnum Registrum Album, William Salt Arch. Soc. 1924 (1926), pp. xxii–xxiv, and R. Lane Poole, HMC Report 4 App. (1895), pp. 206–213

Date: s. xiii–xiv