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Language Latin Name Matthew Paris, historian, Benedictine monk, and polymath, 1200s-1259 Level [40] File

1. Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1
Title:
Matthew Paris, Map of Britain
Scope & Content:
This folio was removed from Cotton MS Claudius D VI, a manuscript including Matthew Paris's Abbreuiatio chronicorum. This is folio 12 of that manuscript, comprising the end of the genealogy of the kings of England (f. 12r) and a map of Britain (f. 12v), said to have been drawn by Matthew Paris h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1255-1259
Extent:
Parchment leaf

2. Cotton MS Julius D VII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D VII/1
Title:
Matthew Paris, Map of Britain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a map of Britain by the English artist and chronicler Matthew Paris (b. c. 1200, d. 1259). Originally drawn on a single folio, it was folded and cut into four leaves and became ff. 50r-53v of Cotton MS Julius D VII, the only surviving copy of the collectanea of John of W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1250-1260
Extent:

1 leaf

3. Egerton MS 3790

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3790
Title:
Scope & Content:
WREST PARK MS. 19. Extracts and notes on medieval chronicles; 16th cent. Latin. Burghley sale, Heraldry no. 11; C.M.A. no. 8; H.M.C., no. 19; Sotheby's sale, 21 June 1922, lot 616. Paper; ff. ii+72. 320 x 215mm. 18th-cent. brown leather binding, blind stamped on the front and back covers and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Harley MS 1620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1620
Title:
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-189v: Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (from the beginning to the reign of Richard I). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*r-2*v, 190r-191v: Fragments from a 14th-century liturgical book with musical notation on 4-line red staves, used as flyleaves. Decoration: Large in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Royal MS 13 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 E VI
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the major works of Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1120, d. c. 1202), a medieval chronicler, archdeacon of Middlesex and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. The Abbreviationes chronicorum (Abbreviations of chronicles) and Imagines historiarum (Images of History) are two chroni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1199-1209
Extent:
1 volume

6. Royal MS 14 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII
Title:
Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two autograph copies of historical works by Matthew Paris with prefatory material: 1. Maps and other prefatory material including a diagram of Winds, the Itinerary from London to the Holy Land, Easter tables and a calendar (ff. 1v-8r); 2. Matthew Paris, Historia Angloru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1259
Extent:

232 folios.

7. Sloane MS 1846

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1846
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1846 Chartaceus, Quarto, ff. 300, sec. XVII; manu doctoris Thomae Browne scriptus(?). 1. Extracts from Dr. Plotts History of Staffordshire. Oxford, 1686. ff. 1-2. 2. Extracts from Hacket's life of Archbishop Williams. ff. 3-10. 172. 3. Excerpta e chronicis Thomae Walsingham. ff. 11-16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item