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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A X, ff 63-103
Title:: Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti; Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis; Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: The earliest version of the Voyage of St Brendan is contained in the life of Saint Malo (who was his scholar) in this manuscript, adapted by Bili, a deacon of Aleth (now Saint Malo, Brittany) for Ratuili, Bishop of Aleth (c. 866). ff. 63r-98r: Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti (Life...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 13 A X

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 1r-34v
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica)
Scope & Content:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica); rubric: 'Introitus in recitationem', incipit: 'Consideranti mihi quam brevis' (f. 1r); the dedication to Henry II, incipit: 'Placuit excellentie uestre' (f. 3v); the main work (here entitled 'Hybernica historia'), incipit: 'Hybernia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 34v-74r
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica
Scope & Content:: Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica; rubric: 'Introitus in recitationem', incipit (f. 34v): 'Quoniam de insule Hybernice situ' ; the dedication to Richard, Count of Poitou, incipit (f. 37r): 'A multis requisitus et multotiens'; the main work (entitled 'Liber vaticinalis hystorie . . . super Hy...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 41 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 74v-100v
Title:: Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae
Scope & Content:: Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae; rubric: 'Incipit itinerarium Girardi Kambrensis, et tam Kambrie quam Britannie descriptio'; incipit: 'Quoniam ca que laudabili devotione', without the preface which appears in some other manuscripts. Edited by Dimock 1867 (pp. 9-152) from this manuscript, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 100v-112v
Title:: Henry of Sawtry (Saltrey), De purgatorio sancti Patrici
Scope & Content:: Henry of Sawtry (Saltrey), De purgatorio sancti Patrici with the prologue addressed to H[enry] Abbot 'de Sartis' [of Wardon, co. Bucks]. Prologue incipit:. 'Patri suo in Christo, preoptato domino'; text, incipit (f. 101v) : 'Dicitur magnus sanctus Patricius'. Decoration: Two large foliate in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 112v-116v
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts)
Scope & Content:: Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts); rubric (f. 112v): 'Exceptiones de cronicis Eusebii'; incipit (f. 113r): 'In castello Iudee Emaus natus estpuer'. Includes miscellaneous anecdotes with several relating to French and English history. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 117r-146v
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Summarium and Anticlaudianus
Scope & Content:: Two works by Alain de Lille, Summarium and Anticlaudianus (a poem in Latin hexameter)in 9 'distinctiones'. Prologue (in prose), incipit: 'Cum fulminis impetus vires suas'; followed by the Summarium, incipit (f. 117v): 'Quia in hoc opere agitur'. Verse prologue to the Anticlaudianus, incipit: 'Au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 30 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r
Title:: Maps and other prefatory material
Scope & Content:: Prefatory material including: 1. Diagram of Winds (f. 1v); similar to one in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 16. f. 1v; 2. Itinerary from London to the Holy Land with images of towns, their names, and descriptions of places (ff. 2r-5r); 3. Map of Britain, with indications of a great hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-1259
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v
Title:: Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:: The only complete copy of the Historia Anglorum, a history of England covering the years 1070-1253, probably composed and written by Matthew Paris in the period between 1250-1255 (ff. 10r-156v). Prologue incipit: 'De chronographia, id est temporum descripcione'; text incipit: 'Anno dominice inca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-1259
Extent:: 148 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r
Title:: Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora, with a continuation
Scope & Content:: The autograph copy of the Chronica Maiora, Part III, by Matthew Paris, covering the years 1254-1259 (the date of Paris's death) (ff. 157r-218v); incipit: 'Anno domini m cc liiii qui est annus domini regis H III xxxciii'. Includes numerous marginal notes and additions by the author. The first two...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-15th century
Extent:: 75 folios.

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