• Source: 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 the New Minster, Winchester and contains other information too, as well as a contemporary image of King Cnut the Great and his second wife Queen Emma of Normandy (below right).


The original manuscript is now kept in the British Library in London, as Stowe MS 944. 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 1066.




References






Editions


Birch, Walter de Gray, ed. (1892). Liber vitae : register and martyrology of New Minster and Hyde abbey, Winchester (in Latin). London: Simpkin. OCLC 37943147.
Keynes, Simon, ed. (1996). The Liber vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger. ISBN 9788742305232. (facsimile)




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

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ælfgifu, istri Eadwig
• Elfweard dari Wessex
• Emma dari Normandie
• Gunhild dari Polandia
• New Minster Liber Vitae
• Durham Liber Vitae
• Cnut
• Æthelweard (son of Alfred)
• Ælfgifu (wife of Eadwig)
• Edgar Ætheling
• Emma of Normandy
• St Mary's Abbey, Winchester
• Ælfweard of Wessex
• Mærwynn