Published in six volumes between 1839 and 1848, this was the first
collected edition of the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters,
comprising royal diplomas in Latin, as well as a variety of
documents (wills, writs, etc.) in the vernacular (Old English).
John Mitchell Kemble (1807-57) collected his material from many
different places (the British Museum, the official records then in
the Tower of London, cathedral archives, college libraries, and
various private collections), and arranged it as best he could in
chronological order. He believed passionately that he was laying
foundations for a new history of the English people, and his work
formed the basis for his study The Saxons in England (1849), also
reissued in this series. Volume 3 of the Codex (1845) contains
texts from the mid-tenth to the early eleventh century, and
includes Kemble's pioneering discussion of vernacular
boundary-clauses.
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