Editing Textus Roffensis (section)

{{Short description|Mediaeval manuscript}}
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[[Image:Law of Æthelberht.jpg|thumb|275px|right|First page of the {{Lang|la|Textus Roffensis}}. From Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5; formerly in the Medway Studies Centre, now in the crypt of [[Rochester Cathedral]].]]
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The '''{{Lang|la|Textus Roffensis}}''' ([[Latin]] for "The Tome of [[Rochester Cathedral|Rochester]]"), fully titled the '''''Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum''''' ("The Tome of the [[Rochester Cathedral|Church of Rochester]] up to [[Ernulf|Bishop Ernulf]]") and sometimes also known as the '''Annals of Rochester''', is a mediaeval [[manuscript]] that consists of two separate works written between 1122 and 1124. It is catalogued as "Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5" and {{as of|2023|lc=y}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Olley Design|title=Textus Roffensis|url=https://www.rochestercathedral.org/textus|access-date=28 June 2023|website=Rochester Cathedral}}</ref> is currently on display in a new exhibition at [[Rochester Cathedral]] in [[Rochester, Kent]].<ref>It was deposited in the [[Centre for Kentish Studies|Kent Archives Office]] in [[Maidstone]] in 1969, and was transferred to the Medway office in 1992 following its creation.</ref> It is thought that the main text of both manuscripts was written by a single [[scribe]], although the English glosses to the two [[Latin]] entries (items 23 and 24 in table below) were made by a second hand.<ref>Treharne, ''Textus Roffensis''.</ref>  The annotations might indicate that the manuscript was consulted in some post-Conquest trials.<ref>Nicholas Kar, 'Information and Its Retrieval' in Julia Crick and [[Elisabeth van Houts]] (eds.), ''A Social History of England, 900-–1200'', 375</ref>  However, the glosses are very sparse and just clarify a few uncertain terms. For example, the entry on f. 67r merely explains that the {{lang|la|triplex iudiciu(m)}} is called in English, ''ofraceth ordel'' (insult ordeal = triple ordeal).

There is a clear, digitised version in the [[Rylands Library|Rylands]] Medieval Collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/Man4MedievalVC~4~4~990378~142729?qvq=q:=Textus+Roffensis+&mi=0&trs=2|title=Manchester Digital|website=enriqueta.man.ac.uk|access-date=28 July 2018}}</ref>