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First page of the Textus Roffensis. From Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5; formerly in the Medway Studies Centre, now in the crypt of Rochester Cathedral.
The Textus Roffensis (Latin for "The Tome of Rochester"), fully titled the Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum ("The Tome of the Church of Rochester up to Bishop Ernulf") and sometimes also known as the Annals of Rochester, is a mediaeval manuscript that consists of two separate works written between 1122 and 1124. It is catalogued as "Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5" and as of 2023[update][1] is currently on display in a new exhibition at Rochester Cathedral in Rochester, Kent.[2] It is thought that the main text of both manuscripts was written by a single scribe, although the English glosses to the two Latin entries (items 23 and 24 in table below) were made by a second hand.[3] The annotations might indicate that the manuscript was consulted in some post-Conquest trials.[4] However, the glosses are very sparse and just clarify a few uncertain terms. For example, the entry on f. 67r merely explains that the triplex iudiciu(m) is called in English, ofraceth ordel (insult ordeal = triple ordeal).
There is a clear, digitised version in the Rylands Medieval Collection.[5]
^Olley Design. "Textus Roffensis". Rochester Cathedral. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
^It was deposited in the Kent Archives Office in Maidstone in 1969, and was transferred to the Medway office in 1992 following its creation.
^Treharne, Textus Roffensis.
^Nicholas Kar, 'Information and Its Retrieval' in Julia Crick and Elisabeth van Houts (eds.), A Social History of England, 900-–1200, 375
^"Manchester Digital". enriqueta.man.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
The TextusRoffensis (Latin for "The Tome of Rochester"), fully titled the Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum ("The Tome of the Church...
at fol. 59—67 T - Scans of Tiberius Bv/1, at fol. 19—23 R - Scans of TextusRoffensis, at images 213—241 Tabular comparison of the different versions...
Æthelberht, dated 28 April 604, survives in the TextusRoffensis, as well as a copy based on the Textus in the 14th-century Liber Temporalium. Written...
of his reign is known. According to the East Anglian tally from the TextusRoffensis, Wehha was the son of Wilhelm. The 9th century History of the Britons...
Kentish manuscripts are the law codes of the Kentish kings, contained in TextusRoffensis, they were early-twelfth-century copies of much earlier laws, and their...
Law of Wihtred—that has been preserved in a manuscript known as the TextusRoffensis. The laws pay a great deal of attention to the rights of the Church...
forms part of the Anglian collection, comes from the 12th century TextusRoffensis. Nothing is known of Tytila's life or his rule, as no written records...
Hierdeboc Blostman Psalms 1–50 Dialogi Legal texts Law codes Geþyncðo (TextusRoffensis) Charters Canons of Edgar Fonthill Letter Scientific texts Leechbook...
dating to the early 7th century, surviving in a single manuscript, the TextusRoffensis from 1120. Paragraph LXVII sets out the fine for wounds of various...
is referred to as Bacheham in the Domesday Book of 1086, and in the TextusRoffensis as Becceham. The name is thought to derive from Beohha's homestead...
'Gravesend' in the Domesday Monarchorum c.1100, and 'Gravesende' in the TextusRoffensis c. 1100. It is strange that this "clerical error" should now have been...
Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 notes that the TextusRoffensis or Tome of Rochester, published between 1122 and 1124, uses Otteford...
Maidstone. The Saxon name for the settlement was Haeselholte (in the TextusRoffensis). The Domesday Book records it as Haslow and in the Middle Ages it...
Hierdeboc Blostman Psalms 1–50 Dialogi Legal texts Law codes Geþyncðo (TextusRoffensis) Charters Canons of Edgar Fonthill Letter Scientific texts Leechbook...
from the original 22 to over 60, implying a sizeable library. In the TextusRoffensis of 1130 a catalogue of the library is included within it. There was...
increasing to 1,807 at the 2011 census. Originally known as Hagelstowe (in TextusRoffensis), Hagelsto or Agelstow, it was named from an Old English word denoting...
12th century they had been arranged into two large collections (see TextusRoffensis). They include laws of the kings, beginning with those of Aethelbert...
Burney MS 277 Rochester Cathedral Library A. 3. 5 (also known as the TextusRoffensis)Murder The text was translated into Latin during the reign of Cnut...
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