De heredibus Scocie (3r–v); conventions between William I, king of Scots (1165–1214), and Kings Henry II (1154–1189) and Richard I (1189–1199) of England (3v–5r); Award of Norham, 1291 (5r–v); Tres filii Noe diuiserunt orbem (6r); De filiis Woden regis (6r); note on Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (6v); chronicle of early British history (7r–10v); chronicle of English history, AD 854–1327 (10v–13r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (3r, 5r–v); Latin (3r–5r, 6r–13r)
Formulary relating to the abbey of Bec and its affairs in England
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; French (135v–137v) Dated: last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century (109r–155v); 1st half of the 14th century (157r–181v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Contents: ff. 3r-54r: A Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6. ff. 55r-56r: A table of contents for the preceding chronicle. [ff. 54v, 56v are blank]. Decoration: Medium and small initials in brown ink.
Contents: ff. 57r-140v: Cronica de Kirkstall, attributed title for a chronicle from Brutus to AD 1430: an abbreviated version of the Polychronicon (History of Many Ages) by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364) with a continuation from 1346 to 1430. Decoration: Medium and small initials highlighted in red....
Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie; Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum
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Contents: ff. 141r-151r: Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie (Sermon on the Dedication of the Church). ff. 151r–158v: Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum (Sermon on the Sacraments of the Neophytes). Decoration: 1 large historiated initial in red, blue and green, fe...
John the Deacon, De sanctis sanctorum (90r–97v, 99v–104r); Nicolaus Maniacutius, Uersus ad incorrupta nomina pontificum conseruanda (98v–99v: Walther 18090); Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl (104r–107v); Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux (Ps.-Stephen Langton), Carmen pareneticum ad Rainaldum (Carmen de contemptu mundi) (108r–109v: Walther 2521); lists of prelates in Rome, and European cardinalates, archbishoprics and bishoprics (110r–113r)