The ''Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici'' is a collection of documents from the Anglo-Saxon period preserved in manuscripts held by various libraries in England.
Published in six volumes between 1839 and 1848, this was the first collected edition of the surviving corpus of
Anglo-Saxon charters
Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the early medieval period in England which typically made a grant of land or recorded a privilege. The earliest surviving charters were drawn up in the 670s: the oldest surviving charters granted land to ...
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[Walter de Gray Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum (Whiting, 1964)]
References
History of literature in England
Texts of Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon literature
Anglo-Saxon law
Political charters
Medieval charters and cartularies of England
Chronicles about England in Latin
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