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Conventions
In the index of places 'county' and 'parish' refer to the administrative entities (often called 'ancient counties' and 'ancient parishes') which existed before the local government reforms of the nineteenth century. In general information about these units has been taken from F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), and F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), as incorporated in the Vision of Britain project.
The text of this volume is reproduced with minimal intervention. Abbreviated place-names (O. for Osney, D. for Daventry and so on) have been expanded.
Denholm-Young did not provide an editorial introduction and his editorial practice must be inferred from the text.
For a number of Osney deeds (D. D. Ch. Ch. O. 1-1092A) and in some other cases Denholm-Young provides only a cross-reference to a text in another printed source. In these cases the entry in the present catalogue has been adapted from the summary given in the printed source, usually Robert Wigram, The cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford, 2 vols. (1895-6) or H. E. Salter, Cartulary of Oseney Abbey, 6 vols. (1929-1936).
W. H. Turner and H. O. Coxe, Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library (Oxford, 1878)
The catalogue reproduces the text as annotated and corrected initially by W. D. Macray and subsequently by various Bodleian staff. The annotated copy is kept in the manuscripts reading room at the Weston Library. A scanned copy is available on Google Books.
Turner and Coxe did not provide an editorial introduction and their editorial practice must be inferred from the text.
Turner and Coxe did not provide calendar dates for documents dated by regnal year and/or feast day. For the present catalogue machine-readable dates for regnal years have been created using an automated process which provides the earliest and latest possible dates for a regnal year. For example, any document whose date includes a feast day and the regnal year 11 Edward II will be encoded as notBefore="1317-07-08" notAfter="1318-07-07".
Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1840)
The text is currently (Oct. 2023) reproduced as printed. We plan to provide English translations of the texts printed in Latin over the coming months.