Liber Exoniensis | |
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Exon Domesday, Exeter Domesday | |
Manuscript(s) | Exeter Cathedral Library, MS 3500, arranged and rebound in 1816 |
Length | 552 folios, single column |
The Liber Exoniensis or Exon Domesday is a composite land and tax register associated with the Domesday Survey of 1086, covering much of Southwest England. It contains a variety of administrative materials concerning the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. The sole surviving copy is MS 3500 in the Exeter Cathedral Library.
The leaves may have been rearranged and rebound in 1816, when the first edition of the volume appeared in print. The original arrangement of the quires cannot be recovered. Five principal types of records can be distinguished:
dsd*Roffe, David (2000). Domesday: The Inquest and the Book. Cambridge.
sadas*Ellis, Henry, ed. (1816). Libri Censualis, vocati Domesday Book, Additamenta ex Codic. Antiquiss. Exon Domesday; Inquisitio Eliensis; Liber Winton; Boldon Book. London: Record Commission.