Full Court Preston
October 10, 2015 in Documents in Question, Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition
Pair of 13th-Century Documents,
Missing Their Seals,
from Preston
Plus a Competition, Prizes Included
[Posted on 10 October 2015, with updates. Also, now, see Preston Take 2.]
Next stop in our exploration of Manuscript and Document Studies. Still on the quest of Fragments and Their Contexts.
We turn now to a pair of documents in a private collection, reproduced by permission. They came for sale as part of a single batch, preserved together and sent forth together, apparently after centuries and generations with a common heritage. Their origin relates to Preston (now known as Preston Saint Mary), near Ipswich, in Suffolk in England.