Title: (Liber Cartarum Sanctae Crucis) Charters of Holyrood: Book of Charters of the Holy Cross Monuments of the Church of the Holy Cross of Edwinesburg (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Author: Unknown author. Presented to the Bannatyne Club by Lord Francis Egerton

Publisher: Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, Scotland

Publishing Date: 1840

Edition: Not stated

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 332, followed by illustrations

Illustrated: Yes, including illustrations inside and additionally in the back

Interior Condition: Solid binding, complete and intact. Very good condition

Exterior Condition: Good to very good, with some chipping of spine title plate, edge and corner wear, some scuff marks

Dust Jacket: No

Size: 4to

ISBN: N/A

Comments: Liber Cartarum Sanctae Crucis, containing foundation charter and documents relating to the early history of the abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland. The first 136 pages include the book preface, and are in English text. The remaining pages of the book are in Latin. Located in Edinburgh, Scotland; founded in 1128 by King David I for the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, probably brought from St. Andrews. The foundation is said to have been an act of thanksgiving for the kings miraculous escape from the horns of a hart, whilst hunting near Edinburgh on Holy Cross day. In the church was preserved, in a golden reliquary, the fragment of the True Cross brought by David's mother, St. Margaret, from Waltham Abbey, and known thereafter as the Black Rood of Scotland. At the battle of Neville's Cross, in 1346, this precious relic fell into the hands of the English, and was placed in Durham Cathedral, whence it disappeared at the Reformation.