This page catalogues basic metadata for all known relic lists with a close connection to medieval English ecclesiastical history. It was initially based on ‘Appendix I: A Catalogue of Relic-Lists from English Religious Houses’, cataloguing initially done by I. G. Thomas in his dissertation ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (University of London, 1974, 341–350). Relic lists are organised alphabetically by listID, the first part of which is the msID; the msID is based on monastic house or locale. See Interpreting ListIDs for more information about listIDs, correspondence, and sigla. This list is also indebted to Julian Luxford’s ‘The Nature and Purpose of Medieval Relic Lists’, in Saints and Cults in Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2015 Harlaxton Symposium (2017), 58–79. Please note that the tabular catalogues are continually updated, refined, and extended as my own work continues. If you are looking for a list or list-like text, such as a resting-place list, and cannot find it here, try Relic List-Adjacent Texts; some of Thomas' sources are not considered a relic list under Loca Sanctorum's definition and can be found at there as well. I attempt to provide links to manuscripts and printed editions, but it has not always been possible to link directly to the appropriate page. A link to the relevant web catalogue page may be provided if no manuscript digitisation is freely available. If I have finished an alpha version of a text’s web edition, the listID will appear as a link; click it to be directed straight to the web edition. For further discussion or notes on manuscript context, dating, etc., click the corresponding '📝' under the MS Notes column. Clicking [Link] will open bibliographical URLs. The catalogue uses a simplified ‘Chicago-lite’ style; a full-entry Bibliography to this page will be coming soon.
| ListID | House or Locale | Manuscript & Source Description | MS Notes | Printed Editions |
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| A1_1α | Abingdon, Benedictine Abbey. | Recensions of a list, 1116, in abbey chronicle, London, British Library MSS Cotton Claudius B VI, ff. 156v–157r. | J. Stevenson, ed., Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, vol. 2, 2 vols, Rolls Series (1858), 155–8. [Link]. | |
| A2_1β | Abingdon, Benedictine Abbey. | Recension of a list, 1116, in abbey chronicle, Cotton Claudius C IX, ff. 163v–164r. | J. Stevenson, ed., Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, vol. 2, 2 vols, Rolls Series (1858), 155–8. [Link]. | |
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Bath, cathedral priory. | 11th–12th c. lists on leaves evulsed from Old English gospel book, now bound in miscellany containing cartulary, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 111, pp. 6–7. | 📝 | W. Hunt, ed., Two Chartularies of the Priory of S. Peter at Bath, Somerset Record Society 7 (1893), lxxv-lxxvi. [Link]. |
| Bat1_1 | Battle, Battle Abbey. | 15th c. inventory in Huntingdon Library, San Marino, MS HM 30319, ff. v–vi verso. |
(a) M. Carter, ‘The Relics of Battle Abbey: A Fifteeneth-Century Inventory at the Huntington Library, San Marino’, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 8 (2019): 309–43. [Link]; (b) See also C. W. Dutschke, Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, vol. 2, 2 vols (1989), 690. |
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| Br1_1 | Brigham, parish church of S. Bridget. | List of gifts of founder, 1348, copied by 16th c. antiquary Roger Dodsworth, in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Dodsworth 32, ff. 96v–98r. | I. Fletcher, ‘Brigham Church’, Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions 4 (1879): 149–77, at 164–5. [Link]. | |
| BSE1_1 | Bury St. Edmunds. | List recording relics at Compostela in the register of William Curteys, abbot of Bury S. Edmunds, in British Library, Add. MS 7096, f. 156r–v. | Unprinted (?) | |
| CaCC1_1 | Canterbury, cathedral priory of Christ Church. | List of ornaments, 1316, in prior Henry of Eastry’s Memorandum Book, London, British Library MS Cotton Galba E IV, ff. 122v–127v. | J. Wickham Legg and W. H. St John Hope, Inventories of Christchurch Canterbury (1902), 79–94. [Link]. | |
| CaSA1_1 | Canterbury, Benedictine abbey of S. Augustine. | Additions, probably 12th. c., on a flyleaf of Latin evangeliary, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 286, f. i, verso. | M. R. James, ‘286. Evangelia Cantuariensia’, in Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, vol. 2, 2 vols (1912), 52–56, at 55. [Link]. | |
| CaSA2_2 | Canterbury, Benedictine abbey of S. Augustine. | Early 14th c. list, in London, British Library, MS Arundel 310, ff. 136v–137r. | Unprinted (?). See J. Luxford, ‘The Nature and Purpose of Medieval Relic Lists’, in Saints and Cults in Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2015 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. S. Powell, vol. 27 (2017): 58–79. | |
| CaSA3_3 | Canterbury, Benedictine abbey of S. Augustine. | A ‘visual’ relic list, c. 1414, in Cambridge, Trinity Hall MS 1, f. 77r. | See J. Luxford, ‘The Nature and Purpose of Medieval Relic Lists’, in Saints and Cults in Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2015 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. S. Powell, vol. 27 (2017): 58–79. | |
| Ce1_1 | Cerne Abbey. | Relic list, ca. 1500, in Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10, f. xxviii verso. | J. Luxford, ‘The Cerne Abbey Relic Lists’, Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 35, no. 355 (2002): 103–7. | |
| Cr1_1 | Cranbourne Abbey. | 15th. c. list in the Founder’s Book of Tewkesbury, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. Glouc. d. 2, begins f. 5r. | J. Luxford, ‘The Cranborne Abbey Relic List’, Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 35, no. 358 (2003): 239–42. | |
| Cv1_1 | Conventry, cathedral priory. | 16th c. inventory in miscellaneous volume, London, British Library MS Egerton 2603, f. 26r. [Catalogue Record] | (a) H. H. Sparling, ‘Relics’, Notes and Queries, 7th series, 6 (1888): 466; (b) ‘The Relics in Coventry Cathedral Church, 1539’, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, new series, 4, no. 2 (April 1890): 102–3, at 103. [Link]. |
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| D1_1α | Durham, cathedral priory. | Witness of a 12th c. list in MS of collected Bedan works, Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge MS O. 3. 55, f. 2r–v. | 📝 | C. F. Battiscombe, ‘A Twelfth-Century List of Durham Relics’, in The Relics of Saint Cuthbert, ed. C. F. Battiscombe (1956), 113–4. |
| D2_1β | Durham, cathedral priory. | Witnesses of a 12th c. list originally in MS of collected Bedan works , London, British Library MS Harley 1924, and now in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 41, ff. 91, 91*, 92, 101. | 📝 | C. F. Battiscombe, ‘A Twelfth-Century List of Durham Relics’, in The Relics of Saint Cuthbert, ed. C. F. Battiscombe (1956), 113–4. |
| D3_1γ | Durham, cathedral priory. | Witness of a 12th c. list in MS of collected Bedan works, of Citeaux provenance, Dijon, Bibliothéque municipale MS 657 (396), f. 39r. | 📝 | C. F. Battiscombe, ‘A Twelfth-Century List of Durham Relics’, in The Relics of Saint Cuthbert, ed. C. F. Battiscombe (1956), 113–4. |
| D4_2 | Durham. | 13th c. list in miscellaneous volume, York, York Minster MS XVI. I. 12, ff. 13r–14v. | 📝 | J. Raine, ed., Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres, Gaufridus de Coldingham, Robertus de Graystanes, Etc Willielmus de Chambre, Publications of the Surtees Society 9 (1839), ccccxxvi–ccccxxx. [Link]. |
| D5_1.A | Durham. | An extract from the similar lists D1_1α, D2_1β, and D3_1γ relating to the early Northumbrian saints copied in a hand of the third quarter of the 12th c. at the end of a copy of Symeon of Durham's Libellus de exordio, also known as the Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiae, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 1. 27, on p. 194 of the red ochre foliation (MS is paginated not foliated). | 📝 |
(a) T. Arnold, ed., Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia: Historia Ecclesiæ Dunhelmensis, vol. 1, 2 vols, Rolls Series (1882), 168–169; (b) See also Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. J. Smith (1722),740–5. [Link]; (c) See also J. T. Fowler, ed., Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, vol. 2, 2 vols, Publications of the Surtees Society 100 (1899), 425–35. [Link]. |
| D6_3 | Durham. | List complied by the then-feretrarius Richard de Segbruk, headed ‘Liber de reliquiis’, 1383, independently foliated, bound into end of MS of Bede, etc., Durham Cathedral MS B.II.35, ff. 192r–198v. | 📝 |
(a) Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. J. Smith (1722), 740–5. [Link]; (b) J. T. Fowler, ed., Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, vol. 2, 2 vols, Publications of the Surtees Society 100 (1899), 425–35. [Link]. |
| E1_1 | Exeter, secular cathedral. | Old English list inserted into Old English gospel book in script dating to second half of 11th c., Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. D.2.16, ff. 8r–14r. |
(a) W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis, and B. Bandinel, vol. 2, 6 vols (1846), 528–31. [Link]. (b) M. Förster, Zur Geschichte des Reliquienkultus in Altengland, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Abteilung 8 (1943), 63–80; (c) P. W. Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 4 (1993), 176–187. |
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| E2_2α | Exeter. | Later half of llth c., Latin list in sacramentary known as the ‘Leofric Missal’, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 579, f. 6r–v. | (a) F. E. Warren, ed., The Leofric Missal (1883), 3–5; (b) N. Orchard, ed., The Leofric Missal, vol. 2, 2 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society 114 (2002), 8–13; (c) P. W. Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 4 (1993), 192–198. |
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| E3_3 | Exeter. | Late 12th c. Latin list on scroll, Exeter, Exeter Cathedral MS 2861. | (a) I. G. Thomas, ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (PhD Diss., University of London, 1974), 478–485; (b) P. W. Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 4 (1993), 201–205. |
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| E4_2β | Exeter, secular cathedral. | Late 11th c. Latin list in a copy of Aldhelm’s prose De Virginitate, London, British Library MS Royal 6. B. VII, ff. 54v–55r, which is a copy of the earlier list in Bodleian MS Bodley 579 that incorporates a few new additions to the relic collection. | P. W. Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 4 (1993), 192–198. | |
| Ed1*_1 | Edington, Wiltshire. | Lists in the beginning of a copy of William Wey’s book of ‘Marterys of Jerusalem’, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 565, which had been kept on a carved desk in the Holy Sepulcre chapel. |
(a) W. Wey, Itineraries of William Wey, ed. G. Williams and B. Bandinel (1857), xxviii–xxx. [Link]; (b) See also J. Luxford, ‘The Nature and Purpose of Medieval Relic Lists’, in Saints and Cults in Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2015 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. S. Powell, vol. 27 (2017): 58–79. |
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| G1_1 | Glastonbury, Benedictine abbey. | 13th c. list bound with chronicles, Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge MS R. 5. 33, ff. 104r–105v. | (a) T. Hearne, ed., Johannis Glastonieneis Chronica, vol. 2, 2 vols (1726), 445–454; (b) M. Howley, ‘Relics at Glastonbury Abbey in the Thirteenth Century: The Relic List in Cambridge, Trinity College R.5.33 (724), Fols. 104r-1205v’, Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009): 197–234 at 221–234. |
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| G2_2 | Glastonbury. | 14th c. list bound with unrelated material, London, British Library MS Cotton Titus D VII, ff. 2r–13v. [Catalogue Record] | (a) I. G. Thomas, ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (PhD Diss., University of London, 1974), 486–515; (b) J. P. Carley and M. Howley, ‘Relics at Glastonbury in the Fourteenth Century; An Annotated Edition of British Library, Cotton Titus D.Vii, Fols. 2r-13v’, in Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition, ed. J. P. Carley, Arthurian Studies 44 (2001), 569–616. |
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| G3_3 | Glastonbury. | List, about 1400, in narrative of John of Glastonbury’s chronicle, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 790 (incompletely digitised). | T. Hearne, ed., Johannis Glastonieneis Chronica, vol. 1, 2 vols (1726), 22–9. | |
| G4_4 | Glastonbury. | Wooden tables, made between 1382–1420, made of six hinged wooden leaves with inscribed parchments, MS Lat. hist. a. 2. | J. Krochalis, ‘Magna Tabula: The Glastonbury Tablets (Parts 1 and 2)’, in Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition, ed. J. P. Carley, Arthurian Studies 44 (2001), 435–567 (at 446–50, 492–8, 501–5, 519–21). | |
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Hyde, Benedictine abbey. | 11th c. list with Old English headline, and 12th c. purely Latin lists, in Liber Vitae, London, British Library MS Stowe 944, ff. 55v, 57v–58v. |
(a) W. de Gray Birch, ed., Liber Vitae: Register and Martyrology of New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester (1892), 147–53, 158–63 [Link]; (b) M. Förster, Zur Geschichte des Reliquienkultus in Altengland, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Abteilung 8 (1943), 115–120. |
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| Lf1_1 | Lichfield, secular cathedral. | Inventory, 1345, Lichfield Cathedral MS 0.1. |
(a) J. C. Cox and W. H. St. John Hope, ‘Sacrist’s Roll of Lichfield Cathedral’, Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 4 (1882), at 107–17. [Link]; (b) Idem, in Collections for a History of Staffordshire 6, no. 2 (1886), at 199–207. |
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| Lf2_2 | Lichfield, secular cathedral. | Mid 14th c. sacrist’s inventory listing service-books and relics on the same sheet of parchment, in Lichfield Record Office, D30/7/1/1. | Unprinted (?) | |
| Lm1_1 | Leominster, Benedictine priory. | List, 1286, alongside various other kinds of legal documents, in Hereford, Herefordshire Record Office AL19/2, the register of bishop Richard Swinfield at Hereford. | 📝 | W. W. Capes, Registrum Ricardi de Swinfield, Episcopi Herefordensis, A.D. MCCLXXXIII–MCCCXVII., vol. 2, 2 vols, Diocese of Hereford (1909), 124–5. |
| Ln1*_1 | Lincoln, secular cathedral. | 15th c. inventory in cathedral muniments. | C. Wordsworth, ‘Inventories of Plate, Vestments, etc. belonging to the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln’, Archaeologia 53, no. 1 (1892): 1–82 at 3–9. | |
| Ln2*_2 | Lincoln. | Inventory, 1536, in cathedral muniments. | (a) W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis, and B. Bandinel, vol. 6, part 3, 6 vols. (1849), 1278–86. [Link]; (b) C. Wordsworth, ‘Inventories of Plate, Vestments, etc. belonging to the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln’, Archaeologia, 53, no. 1 (1892): 1–82 at 13–19. |
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| M1_1 | Meaux, Cistercian abbey. | List, about 1396, among other inventories in cartulary, London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius C VI, ff. 241v–242r. [Catalogue Record] | I. G. Thomas, ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (PhD Diss., University of London, 1974), 515–523. | |
| N1_1 | Norwich, cathedral priory. | Acknowledgement by Henry III of receipt of relics from, 1234, in London, National Archives, Patent Rolls Henry III A.D. 1232–1247, C66/44, membrane 16. | Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office, Henry III. A.D. 1232–1247 (1906), 39. | |
| P1_1α | Peterborough, Benedictine abbey. | 12th c. list in chronicle, which was transcribed into registers of bishops Swaffham (at Peterborough) and Whittlesey (London, British Library Additional MS 39758). | W. T. Mellows, ed., The Chronicle of Hugh Candidus (1949), 53–56. | |
| P2_1β | Peterborough, Benedictine abbey. | Witness of P1_1α surviving in 17th c. transcript, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Dd. XIV. 28. | W. T. Mellows, ed., The Chronicle of Hugh Candidus (1949), 53–56. | |
| R1_1 | Reading, Benedictine abbey. | List, about 1200, in cartulary, London, British Library MS Egerton 3031, ff. 6v–8r. | (a) B. R. Kemp, ed., Reading Abbey Cartularies, vol. 1, 2 vols, Camden Fourth Series 31 (1986), 186; (b) See also D. Bethell, ‘The Making of a Twelfth-Century Relic Collection’, in Popular Belief and Practice: Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, ed. G. J. Cuming and D. Baker (1972), 61–72. |
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| SA1_1 | S. Alban’s, Benedictine abbey. | 15th c. list appended to chronicle, London, British Library MS Cotton Claudius E IV, ff. 349r–v. [Catalogue Record] | H. T. Riley, ed., Gesta Abbatum Sancti Albani, vol. 3, 3 vols, Rolls Series (1867-9), 539–545. [Link]. | |
| Sh1*_1 | Shrewsbury, Benedictine abbey. | Late 12th c. list, manuscript unknown. | Owen and J. B. Blakeway, A History of Shrewsbury, vol. 2, 2 vols (1825), 42–3. [Link]. | |
| Sm1_1 | Salisbury, secular cathedral. | 15th c. list in processional, Salisbury Cathedral MS 148, ff. 15v–19v. | C. Wordsworth, ed., Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901), 33–40. | |
| SP1_1 | S. Paul’s, London, secular cathedral. | Part of inventory, 1245, in Statuta Majora, London, London Metropolitan Archives, CLC/313/B/021/MS25509 (olim Guildhall MS 25509; Cathedral MS W. D. 9), ff. 5v–8v. | W. Sparrow Simpson, ‘Two Inventories of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, Dated Respectively 1245 and 1402’, Archaeologia 50, no. 2 (1887): 439–524 at 469–71. [Link]. | |
| SP2*_2 | S. Paul’s. | Gifts of Ralph of Diceto, in the lost Liber B of the cathedral. | W. Dugdale, The History of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, ed. H. Ellis (1818), 337. [Link]. | |
| SP3*_3 | S. Paul’s. | ‘Other relics’ in ‘old manuscript’ at cathedral, unidentified. | W. Dugdale, The History of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, ed. H. Ellis (1818), 337–9. [Link]. | |
| SSE1*_1 | Salisbury, S. Edmund’s parish church. | Inventory, 1472, in churchwardens’ accounts. | H. J. F. Swayne, ed., Churchwardens’ Accounts of St. Edmund and St. Thomas. Sarum. 1443–1702, Wiltshire Record Society (1896), 6 (corrections on p. 372). | |
| SW1*_1 | S. Stephen Walbrook, parish church. | Inventory, about 1480, in parish records. | T. Milbourn, ‘Church of St. Stephen Walbrook’, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions, 1st series, 5, (1881): 327–402 at 341–2. [Link]. | |
| Te1_1 | Tewkesbury, Benedictine abbey. | Bequest of Isabella Marshal, 1239, in 13th c. annals, London, British Library MS Cotton Cleopatra A VII, ff. 38v–39r. | H. R. Luard, ed., Annales Monastici, vol. 1, 5 vols, Rolls Series (1864), 113–4. [Link]. | |
| Tf1_1 | Thetford, Cluniac priory. | Relics discovered in image, listed in account by 14th c. monk John Brame, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 329, pp. 206–210 (olim ff. 99v–101v). | 📝 | F. Blomefield, ‘Priors: Of the Priory of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew’, in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, vol. 2, 11 vols (1805), 107–27 at 118. [Link]. |
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Thorney, Benedictine abbey. | List added to by several hands over the 12th c. in Thorney Liber Vitae, which is bound with early 10th c. Latin evangeliary, London, British Library Additional MS 40,000, ff. 11v–12r. | (a) F. Wormald, ed., English Benedictine Kalendars after A.D. 1100, vol. 1, Henry Bradshaw Society 77 (1939), 129–30; (b) L. Rollason, ed., The Thorney Liber Vitae: London, British Library, Additional MS 40,000, Fols 1–12r: Edition, Facsimile and Study (2015), 113–114. |
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Twynham, Augustinian priory of Christchurch. | Relics in altar dedications performed in 1196 and 1214 (1.A) and in 1221 (1.B), in cartulary. The earlier two lists seem both to have been written down between 1214 and 1221, in London, British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D VI, Part II, ff. 149v–150r. [Catalogue Record] |
(a) S. Marritt, ‘Scottish Bishops and the Relic-Lists of the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory, Twynham, Hampshire, 1200–1221 (with an Edition and Translation of the Text by John Reuben Davies)’. The Innes Review 65 (2)(2014): 128–52. https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2014.0072; (b) I. G. Thomas, ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (PhD Diss., University of London, 1974), 524–528. |
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| Ty1_1 | Tynemouth, Benedictine priory. | 12th c. list on flyleaf of a Life of Oswin, king and martyr, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 134, f. 2r. [Catalogue Record] | I. G. Thomas, ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (PhD Diss., University of London, 1974), 528–529. | |
| Wa1_1 | Waltham, Augustinian abbey. | 13th c. list in volume of hagiographical works, London, British Library MS Harley 3776, ff. 31r–35v. | I. G. Thomas, ‘The Cult of Saints’ Relics in Medieval England’ (PhD Diss., University of London, 1974), 529–547. | |
| We1_1 (+ others) | Westminster, Benedictine abbey. | List in 15th c. chronicle of John Flete, several MSS, oldest being Trinity College Dublin, MS 548. [Catalogue Record] | J. Armitage Robinson, ed., History of Westminster Abbey by John Flete (1909), 68–73. | |
| We2_2 | Westminster, Benedictine abbey. | Recording of relics and books kept at S. Edward’s shrine, dated 1467, in Westminster Abbey, Westminster Abbey Muniments [WAM], 9477 | Unprinted (?) | |
| We3_3 | Westminster, Benedictine abbey. | Recording of relics and books kept at S. Edward’s shrine, dated 1479, in Westminster Abbey, Westminster Abbey Muniments [WAM], 9478 | Unprinted (?) | |
| We4_4 (?) | Westminster, Benedictine abbey. | Dated 1520. (Complete description pending!) | H. F. Westlake, Westminster Abbey: The Church, Convent, Cathedral and College of St. Peter, Westminster, vol. 2, 2 vols (1923), 499–501. | |
| Wimb1*_1 | Wimbourne Minster. | List of relics printed in English translation, originally found in a ‘very curious Latin manuscript’, list probably late 13th c. | 📝 | J. Hutchins, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd edn., vol. 3, 4 vols (1868), 225. |
| Win1_1 | Winchester, cathedral priory. | 12th c. list of gifts of bishop Henry of Blois, in cartulary, London, British Library Additional MS 29436, ff. 46v–48r. [Catalogue Record] | (a) E. Bishop, ‘The Gifts of Henry of Blois, Abbot of Glastonbury, to Winchester Cathedral’, Downside Review 3, no. 1 (Jan. 1884): 33–44; (b) Idem, reprinted in Liturgica Historica: Papers on the Liturgy and Religious Life of the Western Church, by E. Bishop (1918), 392–401 at 398–401. |
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| Wo1_1 | Worcester, cathedral priory. | 14th–15th c. list of ornaments in manuscript of gifts to the shrine-keepers, Worcester Cathedral MS A22, f. 18r–v. | (a) J. Noake, The Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester (1866), 249–50 (from transcript among the papers of the 19th c. antiquary Peter Prattinton at the Society of Antiquaries, Worcestershire, VIII, p. 437); (b) J. E. H. Blake, ‘Two Inventories in the Library of Worcester Cathedral’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 2nd series, 38, no. 1 (1932): 158–82 at 163. [Link]. |
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| Wo2_2 | Worcester. | Relics mentioned in inventory made 1535, London, British Library MS Harley 604, ff. 117v–118r. | (a) V. Green, History and Antiquities of the City and Suburbs of Worcester, vol. 2, 2 vols (1796) vi–ix; (b) J. S. Brewer and others, eds., Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol. 9, 22 vols (1886), 297. |
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| WRC1_1.A | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1384 describing ‘Jocalia et Reliquie infra Tabulam Summi Altaris’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 50–56. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_1.B | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1384 describing ‘Jocalia et Reliquie semper Stantes super Summum Altar extra Tabulam’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 56–58. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_1.C | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1384 describing ‘Reliquie Non Incluse’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 58–61. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_1.D | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1384 describing ‘Jocalia et Reliquie in Erario’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 76–81. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_2.A | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1410 describing ‘Jocalia et Reliquie infra Tabulam summi Altaris’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 108–112. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_2.B | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1410 describing ‘Jocalia et Reliquie semper stantes super summum Altaris extra tabulam’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 112. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_2.C | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1410 describing ‘Reliquie non Incluse’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 112–113. [Link]. | |
| WRC1_2.D | Windsor, royal chapel. | A subsection of the inventory of 1410 describing ‘Jocalia et Reliquie in Erario’ in Bodleian MS Ashmole 16. | M. F. Bond, Inventories of St. George’s Chapel Windsor Castle (1947), 119–121. [Link]. | |
| WSM1_1 | Warwick, secular college of S. Mary. | List, 1445, in cartulary, PRO Exch., K.R.Misc.Bks.i.22, f. 204v. | W. Dugdale, Antiquities of Warwickshire, vol. 1, 2 vols (1730), 433. [Link]. | |
| Y1_1 | York, secular cathedral. | 13th c. list on flyleaf of Latin evangeliary known as the 'York Gospels', York, York Minster MS Additional 1, ff. 166v–167r. |
(a) J. Raine, ed., The Fabric Rolls of York Minster, Publications of the Surtees Society 35 (1859), 150–53. [Link]. (b) J. Raine, ed., The Historians of the Church of York and Its Archbishops, vol. 3, 3 vols, Rolls Series (1894), 106–10. |