Archbishop Pecham’s Register

Decima L. Douie

doi:10.1017/S0424208400004319

Archbishop Pecham’s Register

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016

Decima L. Douie

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Archbishop Pecham’s register is not only interesting as the first surviving Canterbury register, but also because an attempt has been made in it to abandon the older chronological arrangement for some sort of classification of documents in order to facilitate rapid consultation. The scheme adopted is unique among English registers, being that used by the Curia, for the letters are divided into ‘littere directe pape et cardinalibus,’ ‘littere regi,’ ‘littere episcopis’ and ‘littere communes.’ This order, however, is not rigidly followed, for there is a special section of’littere directe domino pape,’ and many letters to bishops are included among the ‘littere communes.’ Nevertheless, the arrangement was probably due to John of Bologna, the Italian notary brought by Pecham to England. To make consultation even easier, each leaf on which they occur has the heading ‘littere communes’ followed by the year of the archiepiscopate. There is also a rough sub-classification, not very systematically followed.

Type: Research Article
Information: Studies in Church History , Volume 1: Papers read at the first winter and summer meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society , 1964 , pp. 173 - 175

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0424208400004319 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1964

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^{Page 173 of note 1} For details of Pecham’s register published so far, cf. C. Trice-Martin, Registrum epistolarum Iohannis Peckham, archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Rolls Series 1882-5, and Canterbury and York Society, 1908 and 1910.

^{Page 173 of note 2} ff. 9^r-20^υ.

^{Page 173 of note 3} ff. 21^r-29^υ, 142^r.

^{Page 173 of note 4} ff. 30^r-41^υ.

^{Page 173 of note 5} ff. 34^υ-55^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 1} ff. 56^r-64^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 2} ff. 70^r-101^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 3} ff. 103^υ-141^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 4} ff. 139^r-141^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 5} ff. 156^r-216^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 6} f. 173^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 7} f. 173^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 8} f. 180 ^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 9} f. 182^r.

^{Page 174 of note 10} ff. 223^r-239^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 11} ff. 242^r-249^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 12} ff. 221^r-222^υ.

^{Page 174 of note 13} Notably in the register of bishop Godfrey Giffard of Worcester; Cf.Bund, J. W. Willis, The Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard of Worcester, Oxford 1898-1902 Google Scholar.

^{Page 174 of note 14} Historical Manuscripts Commission Various, i, 252.

^{Page 175 of note 1} f. 131^υ.

^{Page 175 of note 2} f. 188^r.

^{Page 175 of note 3} f. 183^r.

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