I have been forced to rely on the Stapleton’s transcription since parts of the manuscript have been torn away since his edition. The condition of the manuscripts is not what is was in the 1840’s and on many occasions (particularly as regards E 373/1 and E 373/2). The new edition should end the situation where generally French scholarship studies the Norman pipe rolls through the badly distorted mirror of an old transcription with its own errors reworked through a marginally younger revised and inexact copy of this transcription with its own very many faults and errors.ĤA particular advantage in preparing these editions has been provided by modern technology. It also contains a number of errors simply committed in copying Stapleton’s transcription. The major differences compared to the Stapleton edition is that the numerals were converted from a Roman to an Arabic form and that some of the Latin was extended although often incompletely and on occasions incorrectly.
The Léchaudé text is not an independent transcription of the Norman pipe rolls (it repeats Stapleton’s errors), but rather a reworking of the 18 edition. The reason for this is that, unlike the Stapleton text, the Léchaudé edition contains an index to the rolls. 4 Léchaudé d’Anisy, Amédée-Louis (ed.), Grands Rôles des échiquiers de Normandie, (.)ģThe most readily available and frequently consulted edition of the Norman pipe rolls found in French libraries and archives is that published by Léchaudé in 18 4.The final volume will consist of a detailed name and place index to the three volumes, maps illustrating the changing nature of administrative boundaries in Normandy between 1179-1180 and 1202-1203, and a detailed general introduction to the rolls and functioning of the Norman Exchequer as well as any corrections to the pipe roll texts and introductions. It will also include a new introduction both to the Norman pipe rolls of King John’s reign and the extractus memorandi. Volume three will contain new transcriptions of the limited surviving records from the Norman pipe rolls of the reign of King John for the years 1200-1201 and 1202-1203 and the surviving extractus memorandi (documents utilized in the preparation of the Norman pipe rolls that contain Exchequer material dating to years for which there are no surviving Norman pipe rolls). The second volume will concern the reign of Richard I and will include new transcriptions of the pipe rolls of 1194-1195 and 1197-1198 and an introduction to these texts.
It also includes a new transcription of S. 4824 no. 1 (another part of the Norman pipe roll of 1183-1184) held in the Archives Nationales in Paris.
This volume contains entirely new transcriptions of E 373/10 (the Norman pipe roll of 1179-1180) and E 373/1 (part of the Norman pipe roll of 1183-1184) both of which are held at the English National Archives in Kew.
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