![]() ![]() ![]() Written in Medieval Latin, it was highly abbreviated and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. The manuscript was originally known by the Latin name Liber de Wintonia, meaning "Book of Winchester", where it was originally kept in the royal treasury. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older " Tudor" bindings.ĭomesday Book ( / ˈ d uː m z d eɪ/ DOOMZ-day) – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the " Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. ![]() Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. ![]()
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