Reading Abbey

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Date:	1100-1700
Places:	Reading, Berkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C65809 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61986 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1100-16th cent: grants (incl indulgences for pilgrims), other deeds, legal papers, obedientiary and estate accounts	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 19571-659	See British Library index of manuscripts; HMC 1st Report, viii-ix, App 14-34 (Hatton Charters); HMC 3rd
2	c1205-17th cent: deeds	The National Archives	C109/68-70
3	1136: grant by Queen Adeliza of Aston manor	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	Acc 2934	See Annual Return 1994; Annual Report 1994
4	c1226-1319: grants by (2) c1226-39	Salisbury Cathedral Archives		See HMC 55: Var Coll I, pp349, 360, 373
5	late 12th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3031	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (801); pd Camden Soc 1986-7; Monastic Research Bulletin 2,p8
6	c1257: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 1708	See Davis (802); pd Camden Soc 1986-7; Mon Res Bull 2,p8
7	c1320-30: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Vesp E xxv	See Davis (803)
8	mid 13th cent: cartulary of the almoner	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Vesp.E.v	See Davis (805)
9	1305-11: 3 leaves from a register of Abbot N Quappelade	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 82, fos 1-3	See Davis (806)
10	14th cent: register	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Dd.9.38	See Davis (807); WA Pantin, Chapters of Black Monks, Camden 3rd Ser, 47, 1933, pp.v-viii; Monastic Resea
11	15th cent: rentals of Berkshire property	Eton College	ECR 63/175, 182, 184	NRA 31984 Eton College
12	late 13th cent: inventory of muniments rel to abbey's dependency, May Priory	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Roll 19631	See Davis (804)
13	manuscripts formerly owned by abbey, incl calendar of obits of abbots	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 101, 330, 651, fos 3-177, 876, 978 (esp fos 15-16), 979	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)
14	12th cent: MSS formerly owned by the abbey	Oxford University: Queen's College Library	MS 317, MS 323	See Coxe & Humphreys, Catalogue of MSS in Oxford Colleges, 1972
15	c1350: formulary	Royal Berkshire Archives	D/EZ176	See Annual Return 2013