List of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775); Regularis Concordia; Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth; Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
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This manuscript is a composite manuscript. It includes: ff. 1r-57v: documents pertaining to Peterborough Abbey, compiled in the early 15th century; ff. 158r–v: a list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); ff. 159r–198r: the Regularis Concordia; ff. 199r–26...
Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth
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These folios contain Middle English hagiographies and a Latin chronicle of Wilton abbey: ff. 199r–263r: a verse Life of St Edith (Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 243); ff. 263r–264v: a chronicle of Wilton Abbey; ff. 265r–279v: a Life of St Æthelthryth (Boffey and Edwards, A New...
Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; Chronicles of Tynemouth Priory
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A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-75, 76-244), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and probably bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-75) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and the 1st...
Vado mori (1v–2r), incorporating ‘Wilfridus’ (2r: Boffey 2463); The Desert of Religion (3r–23v: Boffey 672), incorporating Twelve Abuses (8r: Boffey 86.8) and verses on Richard Rolle (d. 1349) (8v: Boffey 91.8)
Collection of texts relating to the Franciscan Order, including Stationes ecclesiarum urbis Rome (2v–9r); The rewle and the lif of the brethern minoris (Regula et uita fratrum minorum) (10r–24v); The testament of owre holy fadre seynt Ffrancis (Francis of Assisi, Testamentum) (24v–32r); Pope Clement V (1305–1314), articles for the Franciscan Order (42r–43r); statutes of the chapter of Bercynode (44v–50v); The nine perfections (51r–56r); The absey of seynt Bonaventure or the lyffe of a religio...
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Language(s): Latin (1v–9r, 32v–33v, 71v–73v, 80v–83v); Middle English (10r–71r, 74v–80r)