Research Catalog

Title

Great Domesday.

Publication

London : Alecto Historical Editions, 1986-1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Erskine, R. W. H.
• Williams, Ann.
• Great Britain. Public Record Office.

Description

6 cases : col. facsims., col. maps; 44 cm.

Alternative Title

Domesday book.

Subject

• Domesday book > Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England > Facsimiles
• Normans > England > History > Sources > Facsimiles
• Land tenure > England > History > Sources > Facsimiles
• Real property > England > History > Sources > Facsimiles
• Great Britain > History > Norman period, 1066-1154 > Sources > Facsimiles
• England > Economic conditions > 1066-1485 > Sources > Facsimiles

Note

• 2000 copies printed by Westerham Press Ltd., Westerham, Kent, including 1750 copies issued in the present "Library" edition and in the "County" edition, in 31 v.; remaining 250 copies were issued in a "Penny" edition, with the facsim. bound in 1 vol. Library ed. called also "Academic" edition; cf. publisher's memos.
• Title and imprint from t.p. of booklet in case [1].
• General editor: R.W.H. Erskine. Editor-in-chief (translations): Ann Williams.
• Published at the invitation of the Public Record Office, beginning in the 900th anniversary year of the Domesday book.
• "The Library edition ... contains the [413] facsimile folios arranged in fifty-three separate gatherings in the manner of the original manuscript"--P. [3] of booklet in case [1]. In cases [1-2], the 2 "Facsimile" cases, the 53 gatherings are stitched and inserted in 6 portfolios; each case is accompanied by booklet with t.p. and other preliminaries, and has table of contents mounted inside cover. In cases [3-4], the 2 "Translations" cases, there are 34 fascicles, bound in paper covers and inserted in 6 portfolios, each fascicle containing the translation of a single county complete; each case is accompanied by booklet with t.p. and "Notes to the translations," and has concordance to corresponding facsimile case mounted inside cover.
• The facsimile is a full-color actual-size reproduction made by continuous-tone offset lithography from the disbound original.
• Translations edited from the Victoria history of the counties of England, except Cornwall (Ordnance Survey facsim. of Domesday book, 1875), Devonshire (Caroline Thorn, commissioned for this ed.), and Lincolnshire (Lincoln Record Society, 1924).
• Case [5], "Maps," contains 29 folded col. maps, with concordance to indices on inserted table.
• Case [6], "Indices," contains booklet "An index of the modern names of places in Great Domesday book" (viii, 60 p.) with t.p. and other preliminaries, and 30 fascicles for counties (numbered II-XXXII/XXXIII), each being "an offprint taken from the [respective] volume of the County edition of Great Domesday book"--P. [1] of covers of each county fascicle. Concordance to maps mounted inside cover.

Contents

[1] Facsimile: case 1. Folios 0-188, including all folios subsequently added to the manuscript -- [2] Facsimile: case 2. Folios 189-382, including all folios subsequently added to the manuscript. -- [3] Translations: case 1. Folios 0-188, including all folios subsequently added to the manuscript -- [4] Translations: case 2. Folios 189-382, including all folios subsequently added to the manuscript -- [5] Maps -- [6] Indices.

Call Number

*KF+++ 1986 86-116

ISBN

• 094845900X (set)
• 0948459018 (facsim. case 1)
• 0948459026 (facsim. case 2)
• 0948459034 (translation case 1)
• 0948459042 (translation case 2)
• 0948459069 (indices)

LCCN

87162287

OCLC

• 17443260
• NYPG85-B36084

Title

Great Domesday.

Imprint

London : Alecto Historical Editions, 1986-1992.

Edition

[Library ed.]

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Added Author

Erskine, R. W. H.

Williams, Ann.

Great Britain. Public Record Office.

Added Title

Domesday book.

Research Call Number

*KF+++ 1986 86-116 J.S. Billings Mem. Coll.