St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury

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Date:	500-1600
Places:	Canterbury, Kent
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C57247 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O54864 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1250-1538: account rolls, tax assessment, inventories and deeds	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	U14	NRA 36305 Augustine's Abbey See Source List (1984)
2	archives	Canterbury Cathedral Archives		See HMC 5th Rep, App, 429,442,459, [8]:9th Rep, App I, 125,128
3	06th-10th cent: 6th cent Gospel book, incl 10th cent copies of Anglo-Saxon charters	Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College	MS 286	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (199A)
4	13th-16th cent: register of documents rel to the abbey's possessions 13th-14th cent	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	D&C, lit. MS.E.19, E.23	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (196, 206)
5	mid 13th cent-1499: charters (5, mid 13th cent-1336)	College of Arms	Combwell charters no. 21, Monastic charters nos. 151-5	NRA 23441 College of Arms
6	1295: certified copy of bull of Boniface VIII arranging causes between abbot and archbishop	Wells Cathedral Library and Archives	deed 137	See HMC 12: Wells II, p576
7	late 12th cent: fragment of register	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 337, fos 1-11	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (190)
8	late 12th cent: fragment of register	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Vit.A.ii, fos 6-19	See Davis (191)
9	13th-14th cent: register	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Julius D.ii	See Davis (192)
10	13th-14th cent: 'The Red Book' cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Claud.D.x, fos 9-310	See Davis (193)
11	late 13th cent: 'The Black Book' cartulary with rentals, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Faust.A.i	See Davis (194); Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p13
12	13th-14th cent: cartulary	The National Archives	Exch, K.R. (Misc Bks.i.27)	See Davis (195)
13	early 14th cent: fragment of a register	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton.Vit.D.x	See Davis (197)
14	15th cent: Thomas Elmham 'Historia Abbatiae S Augustini', incorporating transcripts of early charters, etc	Cambridge University: Trinity Hall	MS 1	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (198)
15	15th cent: enrolled copies of royal and other charters rel to Fordwich 11th-15th cent	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	Canterbury Cathedral Library MS Chart. Antiq. F47	See Charters of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury ed. SE Kelly, IV, (Oxford, 1995), p.lix; Monastic Rese
16	14th cent: collection of misc historical material, incl list of abbey's privileges	Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College	MS 301	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (199)
17	13th cent: register	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Additional 46352	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (200)
18	13th-14th cent: register of statutes, pleas, etc	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 1213	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (201)
19	c1330: misc register of statutes and other material re abbey's possessions	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Arundel 310	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (202)
20	14th cent: lives of the abbots, incl copies of charters	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Tiberius A.ix, fos 107-80	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (204)
21	1446-c1540: treasurer's accounts (1446/7-59/60), valor (1522-3), rental (c1540)	Lambeth Palace Library		See Sayers, Estate Documents at LPL
22	08th cent; 1538: Gospel fragment late 8th cent	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	Add MSS 16, 224	NRA 36274 Canterbury misc
23	14th-15th cent: formulary	Cambridge University: St John's College Library	MS 142; also MSS 10,43,78,97,99,164,171,230,262	See James, Catalogue of Library of St John's College Library
24	'Gesta Cnutonis', once belonging to	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 33241
25	manuscripts formerly owned by abbey	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 1, 13, ?105, 603, 641, fos 1-115, 647, 652, 1524, 3224, 3644, 3908, fos 1-100, 4132, 5369	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)
26	14th-15th cent: untraced 'Reg. Byholt' ?14th cent	Unknown location		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (203, 205)