{"product_id":"the-thorney-iliber-vitaei-london-british-library-additional-ms-40000-fols-1-12r-9781783270101","title":"The Thorney Liber Vitae (London, British Library, Additional MS 40,000, fols 1-12r)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thorney \u003ci\u003eliber vitae\u003c\/i\u003e (BL, MS Add. 40,000, fols 1-12v) consists of many hundreds of names written in the front of a tenth-century gospel book. This \u003ci\u003eliber vitae\u003c\/i\u003e is one of only three such compilations surviving frommedieval England, the others being the Durham \u003ci\u003eliber vitae\u003c\/i\u003e (BL, MS Cotton Domitian A vii) and the New Minster \u003ci\u003eliber vitae\u003c\/i\u003e (BL, MS Stowe 944). Begun at Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) in the late eleventh century and continued into the late twelfth, it purports to be a record of the names of confraters of the abbey, that is of those people who, through their friendship and gifts to the abbey, were included in the daily prayers of the monks of the community.\u003cbr\u003e The present volume is the first complete edition of this important text, and includes a complete facsimile of the pages. It also contains studies of the manuscript context, of the names included and, where possible, the identities and relationship to the abbey of those named, many of whom are also entered in the priory cartulary known as the Red Book of Thorney. The introduction provides a wide-ranging historical context for the production of the \u003ci\u003eliber vitae\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Lynda Rollason is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  With contributions from Richard Gameson, John Insley and Katharine Keats-Rohan.","brand":"Lynda Rollason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280663884027,"sku":"9781783270101","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781783270101.jpg?v=1772486579","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-thorney-iliber-vitaei-london-british-library-additional-ms-40000-fols-1-12r-9781783270101","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}