John of Hildesheim, Historia Trium Regum; Des grantz geanz; Brut Chronicle (Short Version); Lamentation of Our Lady; four minor works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works in Latin, Middle English and Anglo-Norman French. The core of the manuscript (ff. 80-189) dates to the middle of the 14th century, with subsequent additions up to the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. The contents include the Historia Trium Regum, a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Codex chartaceus, in folio, quamplurimis membranis insertis, constans foliis 291; cui praefigitur sequens titulus. "The state of the church of Great Britain, from the first plantation of religion, unto the most happy reign of king James; with all other occurrences between the see of Rome, and t...
Acts of the Privy Council, 1389–1421 (all originals), much of it relating to the rebellion in Wales led by Owain Glyn Dŵr (d. c. 1416) and the expedition to France, 1415, and including the correspondence of King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) and King Henry V of England (1413–1422: also as Henry, Prince of Wales)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli; an untitled Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut; a summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle titled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’. f. 7v: computistical tables. ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle', beginning: 'Quoniam de situ et institutione lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 15th century