Breuiarium regum Anglorum, to the reign of King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) (87r–121v); Bartolus of Sassoferrato, De insigniis et armis (122r–129r); ‘The names of Cheuytayns that come wyth Wylliam Conquerour’ (129v–130v)
Four anonymous poems in Middle English: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, consecutively numbered, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Biblio...
Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse); On god ureisun of ure lefdi and other prayers
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Contents: (in Middle English): ff. 1r–120v: Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) (Boffey 734.5, 3568); ff. 120v–131r: On god ureisun of ure lefdi (ff. 120v-123v; Boffey 631) and other prayers; (in Latin): ff. 131r-v: Apostles’ Creed. f. 131v: A verse beginning ‘O quam iocundum quam dulce for...
On the coronation of the king of England (165r–169r: imperfect); The maner of makynge of knyghtes (169v–170v); The ordynance of a kynge whan he shall goo to his procession (171r–172r); account of the coronation of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471), 6 November 1429 (172r–173v), incorporating John Lydgate, Sotelties at the coronation banquet of Henry VI (173r–v: Boffey 1929); account of the marriage of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (d. 1477), and Margaret of York (d. 1503), 1...
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Language(s): Latin (165r–168v); Anglo-Norman French (168v–169r); Middle English (169v–177v)
William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect); An Easter-table including Annals of Thorney Abbey; Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough; an annalistic chronicle; Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
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Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali. ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from Christ Church, Canterbury, imperfect. ff. 80r-84v: An Easter-table including the annals of Thorney Abbey. ff. 8...