Historical and topographical papers of William Camden (d. 1623), incorporating items concerning Mary, queen of Scots (1542–67; d. 1587), Elizabeth I, queen of England (1558–1603), and Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex (d. 1601), and including the charges brought against Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530), 1529–30 (36v–41v); the indictment of Sir Walter Raleigh, (d. 1618), 1603 (78v); The Deuise for alteratione of religione (167r–169r); a table of the weights of English and Scottish coins (f. ...
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Dated: 2nd half of the 16th century to middle of the 17th century
Leaves from a theological compilation, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia ad Guillelmum abbatem (1r: imperfect), and William of Saint–Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei (1r–v: imperfect)
Historical and topographical papers of William Camden (d. 1623), including epigrams and epitaphs of William Lily (d. 1522/3) (69r–73v), and a purported charter of Edward the Confessor, king of England (1042–66) (141r: Boffey 1295)
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Language(s): Latin, English and Welsh; Middle English (141r) Dated: 1st half of the 16th century to 1st quarter of the 17th century
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
These folios contain an early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione presbiterii'. Folio 2 contains the entries under the letters A-E, while ff. 178-80 contain the entries E-V.
Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; various additions, including an Easter-table for 1100–1152, Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund, III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred, law-code on Grið, VIII Æthelred, excerpts on the role of a bishop (imperfect), Excerptiones Ecgberti (1st recension), excerpts on canon law
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These folios contain a series of legal texts copied in the early eleventh century in the circle of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. Wulfstan's own hand has been detected adding to and correcting texts, for example on f. 120r (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 164). Later 12th ce...