Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
John Mirk, Festial, with verse prologue (3v–125v: Group A, Boffey 462, 956.5, 4068.3); notes on excommunication (125v–128r: Boffey 3372); excommunication ritual (128v: Boffey 1088.11); John Mirk, Instructions for parish priests (129r–154v: Boffey 961); principal feast-days of the year (154v–155r); notes on various popes (155v–156r)
Pseudo-John of Peterborough, Peterborough Chronicle, AD 654-868, 890-1368
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-45r : Pseudo-John of Peterborough (fl. 1369), Peterborough Chronicle from AD 654-868, 890-1368, copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century. A continuation from AD 869-899 (ff. 5v-9r), is copied in an early modern hand from the 1st quarter of the 17th century. This manuscript c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), beginning: 'Totius namque molis orbe descripto'. ff. 78v-83r: Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123), De Lapidibus (About Stones), beginning: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni’. ff. 8...