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1. The cartulary, which is now in the British Library (Cott. Julius D.I), was published by the Surtees Society in 1889, Cartularium Abbathiae de Rievalle Ordinis Cisterciensis, ed. J. C. Atkinson, Surtees Society 83 (1889) – hereafter cited as Rievaulx Cartulary.
2. See Emelia Jamrosziak ‘Rievaulx Abbey and its social environment 1132-1300’s, PhD thesis, Leeds (2002), p. 4.
3. Rievaulx Cartulary, pp. 260-262.
For a comprehensive study of Rievaulx’s estates, see J. Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire’, Citeaux 49 (1998), pp. 29-94.
4. A copy of Walter’s Sentences is in the John Ryland Library, Manchester; his Psalter is now in Jesus College, Cambridge.
5. B. McGuire, Friendship and Community: the Monastic Experience 350-1250 (Kalamazoo, 1988), p. 370.
6. M. Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Spaces and their Meaning (Turnhout, 2001), p. 101.
7. Some 54 of his poems, four sermons, eleven letters and a few fragments have been printed.
For a summary of Matthew and his works, see McGuire, Friendship and Community, pp. 369-373.
8. D. Bell, ‘The books of Meaux Abbey’, Analecta Cisterciensa 40 (1984), pp. 25-83.
9. Jesus College, Cambridge, MS, 34. This thirteenth-century manuscript includes two library catalogues, bound together. The first and longest runs from f. 1r – 5r and it has been suggested that this is a copy of a late twelfth-century list (see below); the second shorter catalogue runs from f. 5v-6 and is likely a copy of a thirteenth-century list (see below).
For a recent edition of the two copies of the library catalogue (and Leland’s observations on the abbey’s holdings in the later Middle Ages), see Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 3: Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians, ed. D. N. Bell (London, 1992), pp. 87-120.
10. For recent rigorous architectural analysis of the precinct, see P. Fergusson and S. Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory (New Haven and London, 1999).