Textus Roffensis

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First page of the Textus Roffensis. From Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5; now kept at Strood, in the Medway Studies Centre.

The Textus Roffensis was a collection of legal documents that detailed the laws of King William I of England and recorded ownership of land, like Domesday Book. It dates from about 1125. The documents were in part or whole of Anglo-Saxon literature origin.

It was compiled at Rochester during the bishopric of Ernulf. It includes a register of royal charters and grants to Rochester Cathedral, of which independent copies survive.

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