MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. O. 630

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Language(s): Latin

Oxford, St. Mary Magdalen parish. St. Frideswide's remits all claim on the church of St. Mary Magdalen. 1200.

Physical Description

Form: sheet

Support: parchment

With two seals of grey wax, varnished brown, attached by parchment labels.

Seal: The one is the private seal of the Prior, a pointed oval, about 2 inches by 1 1/2 inches Within is an oval inscription, 'Esto utrumque, cave utrumque' round two things which look like a snake and a dove Legend: ‘Sigillum Simonis prioris de sancta Frideswida’

Seal: The other seal is the seal of the Convent, as given in Wigram's Cartulary of St. Frideswide's, measuring 3 1/4 inches by 2 1/4 inches, with the prior's seal on the reverse.

Record Sources

N. Denholm-Young, Cartulary of the Mediaeval Archives of Christ Church, Oxford Historical Society o.s. 92 (1931), p. 4

H. E. Salter, Cartulary of Oseney Abbey, 6 vols. (1929-1936), 2, no. 788 (pp. 229-230)

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-02: First online publication