page_title: New Minster Liber Vitae
hierarchical_section_title: New Minster Liber Vitae
caption_attribution_description: English: See http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=94&amp;CollID=21&amp;NStart=944 for more details. This leaf illustrates King Cnut and Queen Emma donating a golden altar cross to the New Minster at Winchester. British Library MS Stowe 944 (The New Minster Liber Vitae) folio 6 reverse.
context_page_description: The New Minster Liber Vitae is a confraternity book produced in Winchester, in southern England, in 1031. It records the names of visitors to New Minster and contains other information too, as well as a celebrated image of King Cnut the Great and Queen Emma of Normandy.
  The original manuscript is now stored in the British Library in London, UK, as Stowe MS 944. It and the Durham Liber Vitae are the only surviving Anglo-Saxon confraternity books.
  On folio 29, a later writer has added the names of King Edward the Confessor, Queen Edith and the aetheling Edgar. In a recent article, Tom Licence has argued this list shows that Edgar was considered as King Edward's legitimate heir before Edward's death in 1065.
context_section_description: The New Minster Liber Vitae is a confraternity book produced in Winchester, in southern England, in 1031. It records the names of visitors to New Minster and contains other information too, as well as a celebrated image of King Cnut the Great and Queen Emma of Normandy. 
   
  The original manuscript is now stored in the British Library in London, UK, as Stowe MS 944.  It and the Durham Liber Vitae are the only surviving Anglo-Saxon confraternity books.
  On folio 29, a later writer has added the names of King Edward the Confessor, Queen Edith and the aetheling Edgar. In a recent article, Tom Licence has argued this list shows that Edgar was considered as King Edward's legitimate heir before Edward's death in 1065.
caption: Liber Vitae, folio 6r
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