Identity area
Reference code
SJHO/4/1/1
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Title
Date(s)
- c 1250-1483 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, parchment and leather
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Name of creator
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
The cartulary is a volume of 90 parchment folios. It was produced in the middle of the period of the the Hospital's greatest territorial expansion: a majority of the deeds included record transactions between c.1220 and c.1280; also includes a folio of kitchen accounts from 1344.
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Language of material
- Latin
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The volume was repaired and rebound in 1933 when new beech boards were used to replace the earlier boards of the same material. The use of four thongs entering the original boards via grooves may suggest a first known binding date in the second half of the 13th century. (See G. Pollard 'Describing medieval bookbindings', in JJG Alexander and MT Gibson, eds., "Medieval learning and literature, essays presented to Richard William Hunt. (Oxford, 1976). pp57, 65.)
The old boards had been rebound in tooled-leather covers by Nicholas Spierinck, c.1525, and this binding was re-used in 1933.
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Publication note
The cartulary has been published as a calendar with some transcripts by M.G.Underwood, 'The Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Evangelist Cambridge' (Cambridge,2008).