New Minster Liber Vitae
The New Minster Liber Vitae is a confraternity book produced in Winchester, in southern England, in 1031. It records the names of visitors to New Minster and contains other information too, as well as a celebrated image of King Cnut the Great and Queen Emma of Normandy.
Liber Vitae, folio 6r
The original manuscript is now stored in the British Library in London, UK, as Stowe MS 944.[1] It and the Durham Liber Vitae are the only surviving Anglo-Saxon confraternity books.
On folio 29, a later writer has added the names of King Edward the Confessor, Queen Edith and the aetheling Edgar. In a recent article, Tom Licence has argued this list shows that Edgar was considered as King Edward's legitimate heir before Edward's death in 1065.[2]
References
- "Digitised Manuscripts". British Library. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- Licence, Tom (2017). "Edward the Confessor and the Succession Question: a fresh look at the sources". Anglo-Norman Studies. 39: 113-127.
Further reading
- S. Keynes, 'The Liber Vitae of the New Minster, Winchester', in The Durham Liber Vitae and its context, ed. D. Rollason et al. (Woodbridge, 2004), pp.149-164
- 'The New Minster Liber Vitae', Medieval Manuscripts Blog http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2011/06/the-new-minster-liber-vitae.html
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