ANGLO-SAXON INDEX
at Trinity College, Cambridge
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html
Anglo-Saxon charters
under construction
(selection of charters and scanning of images still in progress)
Anglo-Saxon charters provide a basis for our
knowledge of Anglo-Saxon history from the late seventh century
onwards. For further information, go
here.
The images below show a selection of charters from different parts of
the period.
For the Anglo-Saxon charters website (including
online texts, some more images, the 'Electronic Sawyer', and much
else besides), go
here.
- Anglo-Saxon charters of the ninth
century
- Charters of King Æthelwulf
(839-58)
- Grant of land at Chart, Kent, to
Æthelmod,
minister,
dated 843, with attached memorandum for the witness-list
(S
293) (BL Stowe Charter 17)
- Anglo-Saxon charters of the tenth
century
- King Edward the Elder (899-924)
- King Æthelstan (924-39)
- Grant of land at Ham, Wilts., to Wulfgar,
minister,
dated 931, written by the scribe known as 'Æthelstan
A' (S
416) (BL Cotton Charter
viii.16)
- King Edgar (959-75)
- Restitution of land to Wulfric,
minister,
dated 960, written by the scribe known as 'Edgar A'
(S
687) (BL Cotton Augustus ii.
40)
- Charters of King Æthelred 'the Unready'
(978-1016)
- Grant of privileges to Abingdon Abbey, dated
993 (S
876) (BL Cotton Augustus ii.38)
- Anglo-Saxon charters of the eleventh
century
The background image is from a charter of King
Æthelstan
(for colour image, see above)
