Inspeximus by King Edward I of England (1272–1307) of the charter by which King Henry III of England (1216–1272) granted to Edmund ‘Crouchback’ (d. 1296) the Honour of Leicester and other lands: Amesbury, 7 August 1285
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French endorsement (1v)
Miscellaneous theological texts (2r–13r); Nicholas of Gloucester, Chronicle, Noah–AD 838 (13r–146v); Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie (147r–148v: Dean 13, imperfect)
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (147r–148v)
Layamon’s Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, religious and historical texts in Middle-English and Anglo-Norman French
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Contents: ff. 3r-194v: Layamon’s Brut (Boffey, no. 295), the most complete surviving copy of this work, composed in alliterative verse by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire, at the beginning of the 13th century. A second copy, much abbreviated, is found in Cotton MS Otho C XII...
This manuscript contains one of only two non-fragmentary surviving manuscripts of the poem Heliand, an account of the life of Jesus in Old Saxon epic verse. It ends imperfectly, in the middle of the account of the journey to Emmaus. The volume includes: f. 1: part of a memorandum dated 1371-72 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, Latin, and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century - the 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Medieval memorandum, dated 1371–72; early modern instructions for binding
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This folio contains a memorandum in Anglo-Norman French, dated 1371-72. It also contains instructions for binding a manuscript, in an early modern hand, and the shelfmark 'Caligula A. 7.'
Chronicle of Worcester Cathedral Priory, AD 1–1308, with a continuation to 1377 (65r–192v); notes relating to the bishops of Worcester, AD 798–957 (195r–196r); Breuis annotatio regum tam Anglorum quam Normannorum (197r–200r); Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl (200r–204v); miscellaneous prose texts (204v–207r); verse beginning ‘Rex Aluredus erat primus rex Angligenarum’ (207v–208v)
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (165r–166r, 167r–v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-4th quarter of the 15th century