Excerpts from chronicles and pedigrees transcribed by Thomas Talbot (d. 1595 × 1599), including Genealogia fundatorum monasterii de Stanlaw (Whalley Abbey) (4r–12v); Gervase of Canterbury, Chronica (19r–21v, 25v–32v); Liber fundationis monasterii sancte Marie Eborum (44r–45r); Tintern Chronicle (60r–61v); Croxden Chronicle (113v–119r)
Speech of John Feckenham, abbot of Westminster (d. 1584), in Parliament, 1559 (86r–91v); funeral oration for Queen Mary I of England (1553–1558) (92r–105r); discourses on the Catholic faith (105v–109v); letter of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (1162–1170), to King Henry II of England (1154–1189) (110r–111r); speech of Cuthbert Scott, bishop of Chester (1556–1559; d. 1565), in Parliament, 1559 (112r–123r); prophecies (123v–126v); Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola ad senatum Romanum de Iesu Chris...
Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-86r: Penitential manual including the first part of the Penitentiale Sangermanense or Cantabrigiense. Liturgical part of the penitential is on ff. 2r-3v; the ordo part is on ff. 4r-86r. ff. 87r-92v: Confessional prayer in Old English. It contains a long list of sins aimed to t...
These folios contain the 'Harleian recension' of Historia Brittonum, copied at Rochester in first half of the 12th century. The remainder of this text is now Royal 15 A XXII. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
These folios contain various hymns and poems, all copied in what is now France or Germany in the first half of the 9th century: ff. 41r–68v: Sedulius, Paschale carmen (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 11692); ff. 68v–70v: Sedulius, Hymnus i (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 19...