| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/5B |
| Title | Libellus (fragment) |
| Date | [1241x1250] |
| Description | Material relating to the dispute between Archbishop Edmund of Abingdon and the cathedral priory about the election [in 1239] of Roger de la Lee as prior. Includes transcription of letter from Pope Gregory IX to Otto, cardinal of St Nicholas in Carcere, papal legate, concerning the election. Dating clause omitted. Also letter from Pope to the abbot and archdeacon of St Albans and the prior of Dunstable, dated 6 Mar 1241 [transcribed by Gervase of Canterbury, as below]. Asking them to relax the sentences pronounced by Edmund on the cathedral priory, and concerning the archiepiscopal election. No date. [Date: content and handwriting.] |
| Extent | 1 quire |
| Physical Description | Parchment; quire of 4ff; 2ff loose, damaged by fire |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Registered version of papal letter of 6 Mar (calendar entry): Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland 1198-1304, p194
Another version of papal letter of 6 Mar (transcription): W Stubbs (ed), Historical works of Gervase of Canterbury, vol ii, (Rolls Series, London, 1880) pp192-3
Related material: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/129A |
| Publication Note | Noted in C Donahue, The records of the medieval ecclesiastical courts, part ii (Berlin, 1994), p81 |