Anglo Saxon Collections in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of the Anglo Saxons

Collections Which Cover Individual Periods or Reigns

Anglo Saxon Collections and Medieval Law

Anglo Saxon Collections and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Ashdown, Margaret, ed. English and Norse Documents: Relating to the Reign of Ethelred the Unready. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930.

Abstract: Original text and translation on opposite pages for documents of the reign of Ethelred II, 979-1016.

Asser, John, Simon Keynes, and Michael Lapidge, eds. Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1983.

Abstract: Translation of De rebus gestis Aelfredi. A collection of source texts, including some of Alfred’s Laws, translated with an introduction and notes by Simon Keynes, and Michael Lapidge.

Dumville, David N., Simon Keynes , and Simon Taylor, eds. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle a Collaborative Edition. v. Cambridge: Biblio Distribution Services, 1983-.

Abstract: Text of chronicle in Anglo-Saxon; explanatory material in English ; editions of Latin texts. Vol. 10 is a reconstructed edition with introduction and indexes.

Partial contents:

Vol. 1, Facsimile of Ms. F, the Domitian bilingual, edited by Davin Dumville

Vol. 4, MS B, edited by Simon Taylor

Vol. 5, MS C, edited by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe

Vol. 6, MS D, edited by G.P. Cubbin

Vol. 7, MS. E, edited by Susan Irvine

Vol. 10, The Abingdon chronicle, AD 956-1066 (MS. C, with reference to BDE), edited by Patrick W. Conner

Vol. 17, The annals of St. Neots with Vita prima Sancti Neoti, edited by David Dumville & Michael Lapidge

Petrie, Henry, John Sharp, and Thomas D. Hardy , eds. Monumenta Historica Britannica, or, Materials for the History of Britain, From the Earliest Period. Volume I. (Extending to the Norman Conquest) . London: G.E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode, 1848.

Abstract: Published for the Record Commission. Only v.1 published. Contains extracts from Greek and Roman writers; works by Gilds, Nennius, Bede and many others. For the most part re-edited in Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland (Rolls Series).

Sanders, William B., ed. Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. 3 Parts. Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1878-1884.

Abstract: 121 plates, some in Latin, some in Anglo-Saxon, with an English translation on the opposite page. Part 1, AD 742-1049 Canterbury; Part 2, AD 681-1068; Part 3, AD 697-1161.

Stubbs, William, and H. W. Carless Davis, eds. Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First. 9th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.

Notes: Also available online in The Making of Modern Law and HeinOnline (subscription databases)Abstract: Aims to include every constitutional document of importance for the period. Contents: Part II, Extracts illustrative of the early polity of the English ())Anglo Saxon((); Part III, Charters and Excerpts illustrative of the Norman period; Part IV, Charters and excerpts illustrative of the reign of Henry II, it includes the assizes of Henry II; Part V, Charters and excerpts illustrative of the reigns of Richard I and John; Part VI, Charters and excerpts illustrative of the reign of Henry III; Part VII, Charters illustrative of the reign of Edward I. Text in Latin with English notes. The Anglo-Saxon laws are quoted in the original language in the 9th edition, edited by H.W. Carless Davis.

Whitelock, Dorothy, Peter Clemoes, and Kathleen Hughes. England Before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock. Cambridge : University Press, 1971.

Bibliographies of English Law History

• Maxwell, William H. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1955-
• Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
• Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.

Resources

See Also

• Quasi-Contract (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Family Settlements (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Notability (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Lordship Rights (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Ecclesiastical Tribunals (in this legal Encyclopedia)