Vellum charter, 19.75 x 13.  11th cent.

Donor, T. Baker, who endorses it thus:

Exemplar hoc MS. mihi ab A. Bosvile Bibliopola Londin : donatum, dono Collegio S. Joh. Cant:

There is an original endorsement:

Concilium Willelmi Regis et lanfranci archiep. apud london. de primatu Cant. ecclesie et Regulis ecclesiarum.

and a somewhat later one: De primatu.

Text:

            Anno incarnationis dominice M LXXV

                                                            -fauorem commodet.

The names and marks of the members of the council follow, beginning with Lanfranc and ending with the Abbot of Cernel (Cerne).  All are described as bishops or abbots save the Archdeacon of Canterbury and ‘Osirich de hortuna’ (printed in Wilkins as ‘abbas de hortuna’).

The text agrees very closely with that in Spelman,  Concilia II 7, and Wilkins, Concilia I 362 (St John's College Library MS. S.6.12-15), which is taken from a register at Worcester (the only copy, other than this, which gives all the subscriptions) and from  a Canterbury Christchurch MS. A. VII. 6 in the Chapter Library.  William of Malmesbury  Gest. Pont. p. 66, gives a shortened text.

This copy is contemporary, I should think, with the Council.

There is a certain variety in the signatures of the subscribers which at first sight gives the impression that they may be autographs.

Collier, Eccl. Hist. II 19, refers in the margin to this copy.