Contents: ff. 83r–87v: Chronicle of Abingdon Abbey; ff. 87v–90v: Miscellaneous historical and liturgical texts. Decoration: Initials in green or red with pen-flourishing in red and green. Small initials in red or green. Rubrics in red.
Contents: f. 91r: Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troie historia (this text is continued in Royal MS 15 B xi); ff. 91v–100v: Historia Brittonum. Decoration: Large initial in red and green with penwork decoration at the beginning of the Historia Brittonum (f. 91v). Initials in red or green.
This folio contains a medieval end-leaf, with historical memoranda copied in Latin in the 1st half of the 15th century (f. 3r) and in French in the 2nd half of the 16th century (f. 3v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Chronicle of Chichester Cathedral, AD 1-1178; List of bishops
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: A chronicle of Chichester from the birth of St John the Baptist to 1164, with additions from the 1170s and 1220; largely based on the works of the Benedictine monks and historians Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735) and William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1090, d. in or after 1142), and the...
Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Uita Wærmundi regis (67r–70r); miscellaneous texts (70r–76v) including a list of the abbots of St Albans to John of Hertford (1235–1263) (74r–v); chronicle of English history, AD 1066–1246 (77r–108v: imperfect?); chronicle of world history, AM 1–AD 1347 (109v–132r); Roger of Howden, Chronicle, AD 1066–1201 (133r–238v); description of relics at Constantinople (239r); Miracula sanctorum patrum qui in ecclesia Hagustaldensi requiescunt (239v–242r: BHL 3749)
Scope & Content:
Dated: middle of the 13th century (67r–74v, 77r–108v); 2nd half of the 13th century (75v–76v); middle of the 14th century (109v–242r)
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a fragment of the Compendium in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitier (b. c. 1130, d. 1205), ending with a diagram of Jesus, his apostles, Paul and Barnabas. These folios were copied in the late 12th or early 13th century. Chapter titles pertaining to Macer's De viribus her...
Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
