1979 First Edition Hardback 4to  xi, 206 pp 1 monochrome facsimile plate (Frontispiece: Liber Landavensis,  Original maroon buckram cloth with gilt-stamped title and author to the spine in yellow pictorial jacket with orange typography. Very good condition.

The text provides a technical analysis of the 158 charters found within the 12th-century Liber Landavensis. Wendy Davies offers a chronological reconstruction of these documents, which record land grants and ecclesiastical privileges in south-east Wales from the 6th to the 11th centuries. The work includes a comprehensive index of persons and places, as well as a diplomatics study of the formulas and narratives used by medieval scribes to document regional lordship and church history.