Medieval Manuscript Fragments at the Staffordshire Record Office

This essay draws attention to two largely untapped resources for manuscript study. Perhaps primarily, it exposes the potential riches still unexamined in local record offices. We here chronicle but a single example, the Staffordshire Record Office, where we uncovered more than sixty folios of medieval materials from bindings (presented in a brief catalogue). But more broadly, we here argue the need for investigation of medieval materials now extant as fragments within bindings of all sorts.