Liber Exoniensis | |
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Exon Domesday, Exeter Domesday | |
Manuscript(s) | Exeter Cathedral Library, MS 3500, arranged and rebound in 1816 |
Length | 552 folios, single column |
The Liber Exoniensis or Exon Domesday is the oldest of the three manuscripts originating with the Domesday Survey of 1086, covering south-west England. It contains a variety of administrative materials concerning the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. It is MS 3500 in Exeter Cathedral Library.[1]
The leaves were first numbered about 1500, when they were bound as two volumes. They were rearranged and rebound in 1816, when the Record Commission edition was published. There was no 'original order' of the quires, which were in effect separate working documents. Five principal types of record can be distinguished:[1]
folios | summary | comment |
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1–3v | Wiltshire geld accounts, version A | the latest version |
7–9v | Wiltshire geld accounts, version B | |
11–12v | Dorset boroughs | |
13–16v | Wiltshire geld accounts, version C | |
17–24 | Dorset geld accounts | |
25–62v | Dorset and Wiltshire manorial descriptions | |
63–64v | Two lists of the hundreds in Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset | |
65–71 | Devon geld accounts | |
72–73 | Cornwall geld accounts | |
75–82v | Somerset geld accounts (main part) | |
83–494v | Devon, Cornwall and Somerset manorial descriptions | |
495–506v | Terrae Occupatae in Devon | |
507–508v | Terrae Occupatae in Cornwall | |
508v–525 | Terrae Occupatae in Somerset | |
526–527v | Somerset geld accounts (small part only) | |
527v–531 | Fief summaries | |
532–532v | Partial schedule of quires | [1] |