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Medguistyl's manumission is more correctly (as I read it):
hoc est no[men] illius mulieris .i. medguistyl
cum p[ro]genie sua .i. bleiduid, ylcerthon,
byrchtylym; quos liberaverunt cleri
s[an]c[t]i petroci sup[er] altare illius petroci, p[ro]
remedio eaðryð rex, & p[ro] animab[us] illor[um];
coram istis testib[us] comayre p[re]spiter
grifiud p[re]spit[er], oysian p[re]spi[ter], loumurch
diaconus, wudryt clericus, loucum cleric[us]
tithert clericus..,
Commented Feb 27, 2014 on Slavery and Sainthood in Cornwall at Medieval manuscripts blog
Slavery and Sainthood in Cornwall
Copied in a scriptorium in Brittany in the early 9th century, this Gospel Book, new to our Digitised Manuscripts site, is referred to as the Bodmin Gospels, or the St Petroc Gospels. Both these names are references to its place of origin; it was originally used for the swearing of oaths upon th...
"Hoc est nomen illius milieris i Meðruirtyl"
No, the name clearly reads "Medguistyl".
Commented Feb 27, 2014 on Slavery and Sainthood in Cornwall at Medieval manuscripts blog
Slavery and Sainthood in Cornwall
Copied in a scriptorium in Brittany in the early 9th century, this Gospel Book, new to our Digitised Manuscripts site, is referred to as the Bodmin Gospels, or the St Petroc Gospels. Both these names are references to its place of origin; it was originally used for the swearing of oaths upon th...
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