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Cartularium Saxonicum: A Collection of Charters Relating to Anglo-Saxon History

Birch, W. de Gray (1885) · Whiting & Co.

3 vols and index (London, 1885–99). Comprehensive corpus of early charters arranged chronologically up to A.D. 975.

Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury

Brooks, N. P. and Kelly, S. E. (2013) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 17–18

2 vols, British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2013). The paramount archive of early England, holding 74 pre-900 charters and synodal acts.

The Charters of King Alfred

Burghart, A. (2006) · Ph.D. Dissertation, King's College London

Department of History, King's College London (2006). Definitive re-examination of all surviving diplomas issued in the name of King Alfred.

Charters of Rochester

Campbell, A. (1973) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 1

British Academy / Oxford University Press (London, 1973). The inaugural volume of the British Academy series, editing the Textus Roffensis archive.

The Origin and Authenticity of the Royal Anglo-Saxon Diploma

Chaplais, P. (1973) · Prisca Munimenta (ed. F. Ranger)

London (1973), pp. 28–42; repr. from Journal of the Society of Archivists 3 (1965). Rigorous palaeographical scrutiny of single sheets and forged muniments.

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100

Gneuss, H. and Lapidge, M. (2014) · Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 15

University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2014). Indispensable census of surviving pre-Conquest manuscripts and single-sheet charters.

Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

Harmer, F. E. (1914) · Cambridge University Press

Cambridge (1914). Pioneering edition, grammatical commentary, and translations of early vernacular wills, bounds, and administrative memoranda.

Anglo-Saxon Writs

Harmer, F. E. (1952) · Manchester University Press

Manchester (1952; reissued 1989). Definitive treatise on the sealed vernacular writ as an instrument of royal administration and executive power.

Charters of St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury and Minster-in-Thanet

Kelly, S. E. (1995) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 4

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1995). Critical edition of the premier early Kentish monastic scriptoria and archives.

Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (1996) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 5

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1996). Comprehensive edition of King Alfred's royal nunnery foundation in Dorset.

Charters of Selsey

Kelly, S. E. (1998) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 6

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1998). Critical edition of the South Saxon episcopal see of Selsey (later Chichester Cathedral).

Charters of Abingdon Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (2000) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 7–8

2 vols, British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2000–2001). Major edition of the extensive Berkshire abbey archive.

Charters of St Paul's, London

Kelly, S. E. (2004) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 10

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2004). Edition of early East Saxon and Mercian grants preserved at the London cathedral see.

Charters of Malmesbury Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (2005) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 11

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2005). The archive of Aldhelm's abbey, preserving remarkable 7th–9th century royal privileges.

Charters of Bath and Wells

Kelly, S. E. (2007) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 13

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2007). Critical edition of the West Saxon monastic archive of Bath and cathedral archive of Wells.

Charters of Peterborough Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (2009) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 14

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2009). The archive of Medeshamstede (Peterborough), central to early Mercian hegemony.

Charters of Glastonbury Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (2012) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 15

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2012). The ancient Somerset abbey archive, preserving extensive West Saxon royal muniments.

Charters of Chertsey Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (2015) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 16

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2015). Surrey monastic archive founded under subregulus Frithuwold and Bishop Eorcenwald.

Charters of Barking Abbey

Kelly, S. E. (2021) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 19

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2021). The muniments of St Æthelburh's double monastery, including famous 7th-century diplomas.

Charters of St Albans

Kelly, S. E. and Thompson, V. (2024) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 20

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2024). The complete corpus of early grants associated with King Offa's premier Mercian shrine monastery.

Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici

Kemble, J. M. (1839) · English Historical Society

6 vols (London, 1839–48). The monumental foundation of modern Anglo-Saxon charter diplomatic and textual criticism.

Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon

Ker, N. R. (1957) · Clarendon Press

Oxford (1957; reissued with supplement 1990). Authoritative palaeographical catalogue of all manuscripts preserving Old English text.

The Diplomas of King Æthelred 'the Unready' (978–1016)

Keynes, S. (1980) · Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 13

Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1980). Masterwork demonstrating how royal diplomas reflect court politics, royal factions, and drafting traditions.

Charters of the New Minster, Winchester

Miller, S. (2001) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 9

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2001). Critical edition of the royal foundation established by King Edward the Elder.

Wealth and Wisdom: The Politics of Alfred the Great

Nelson, J. L. (1993) · Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe (ed. A. J. Duggan)

Kings College London Medieval Studies 10 (London, 1993), pp. 31–59. Foundational study of King Alfred's resource extraction and charter production.

Charters of Sherborne

O'Donovan, M. A. (1988) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 3

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1988). Critical edition of the West Saxon episcopal see and monastic archive of Sherborne.

Anglo-Saxon Charters

Robertson, A. J. (1939) · Cambridge Studies in English Legal History

Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1939; 2nd ed. 1956). Comprehensive edition with parallel translations of vernacular charters, bounds, and leases.

Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography

Sawyer, P. H. (1968) · Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 8

London (1968). The definitive standard reference catalogue establishing the canonical 'S' numbering for all Anglo-Saxon charters.

Charters of Burton Abbey

Sawyer, P. H. (1979) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 2

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1979). Complete critical edition of the Mercian and West Midland archive of Burton Abbey.

The Latin Charters of the Anglo-Saxon Period

Stenton, F. M. (1955) · Clarendon Press

Oxford (1955). Classic series of lectures analysing the evolution of early Insular diploma formulation and royal chancery organisation.

Anglo-Saxon Wills

Whitelock, D. (1930) · Cambridge Studies in English Legal History

Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1930). Authoritative edition with legal notes of early English wills, bequests, and probate settlements.

Charters of Northern Houses

Woodman, D. A. (2012) · Anglo-Saxon Charters 12

British Academy / Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2012). Critical edition of pre-Conquest title-deeds from Durham, York, Beverley, and Ripon.

The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century

Wormald, P. (1999) · Blackwell Publishers

Oxford (1999). Monumental investigation of early English law-codes, judicial gemots, and charter dispute settlements.