Contents: ff. 171r-178v: Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem (The Barons’ Insult against King John), beginning: ‘Mater cum omnibus'. Decoration: Numerous small large initials in red and blue, some with pen-flourishing. Numerous large initials in red and blue.
Contents: ff. 179r-213v: Reginald of Canterbury (d. c. 1112), Vita Sancti Malchi (Life of St Malchus), preceded by a prologue (f. 179r) and followed by Carmina (Poems), beginning: ‘Prelia gesturus’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, green and blue. Rubrics in red.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britannie (104r–107r: excerpts); Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie, to King Henry III of England (1216–1272) (107v–112r: Dean 13); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Uita Merlini (112v–138v); prose account of the kings of England to Henry III (139r–141v); genealogy of the rulers of Normandy and England (142v–143r); Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl (143r–147v); Gossouin of Metz, Le ymage del munde (148r–152v: Dean 326); Reading Chronicle, AD 1–1285 (153r–201v)
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (107v–112r, 148v–152v)
Augustine of Hippo, Retractiones, ii.4 (De doctrina christiana) (203v); papal, archiepiscopal and episcopal letters (203v–206r, 207r–210v); De malo et nichil, attributed to Anselm of Canterbury (206r–v); convention between Worcester Cathedral Priory and Ælfgetus, priest of Wilton, 1116 (207r)