Dossier concerning English jurisdiction in Scotland (133r–138r); letter of King Edward I of England (1272–1307) to Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), 1301 (138v–141v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (138v, 141v) Dated: last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century; 1st quarter of the 14th century (138v–141v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Wace, Roman de Brut (19r–115v: Dean 2); verse-chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings of England (115v–137v: Dean 24); Wace, La conception Notre Dame (123v–127r: Dean 489); verse beginning ‘(R)umor nouus Anglie partes pererrauit’ (138r–v: Walther 16929, imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French; Latin (138r–v) Dated: last quarter of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century (123v–127r, 138r–v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
ff. i–v: Five rectangles of red linen, formerly used as curtains for the miniatures. ff. 3–6: Eight miniatures of the kings of England from Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) to Edward I (r. 1272–1307); each one except the last is accompanied by a short account of their reign in Anglo-Norman p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
4 parchment leaves and 5 rectangles of fabric in frames
(1) Old English Illustrated Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus in Old English; (2) Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi; (3) Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii; (4) notes by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf. f. 4r: early modern table of contents. ff. 5r-10v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi, copied in England in the 1st qua...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 17th century