| Description | Enrolled copies in contemporary hands of 49 documents, mostly professions of obedience but also other related documents, dating from 1086 to 1160, with one dated 1420. 2 of these texts are written on verso. Six are professions made by heads of religious houses, or documents relating to their election. These houses are St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and Leeds Priory [Kent]. The rest are professions made by bishops or documents relating to their election. In many cases, the originals of these professions do not survive.
Also on verso. Account in late 12th cent hand of consecrations of bishops of Llandaff from 927 to 1107. Gives details of some elections, mentioning Welsh kings reigning at the time. In addition, details of consecrations of some bishops of St Davids and of William [Giffard], bishop of Winchester, William [Warelwast], bishop of Exeter, Reinhelm, bishop of Hereford, and Roger, bishop of Salisbury in 1107.
Also, description in 15th cent hand, describing document as containing professions made by suffragan bishops and abbots to Lanfranc and licences to consecrate bishops outside Canterbury.
The episcopal professions are included in M Richter, Canterbury Professions (Canterbury and York Society, 1973). For originals of the professions made by heads of religious houses, see DCc-ChAnt/A/41.
The palaeography of the manuscript is discussed in N R Ker, English manuscripts in the century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford, 1960), esp p17. A number of photographs of the manuscript are included in this work as plates. Ker considers that the enrolments were made immediately or shortly after the bishops' consecrations. |
| Publication Note | Described and partly transcribed in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 453
Profession of Hugh, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, in 1099, noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 431 |