Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora (2r–393r), incorporating St Godric’s hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary (150v: Boffey 2988); De gestis regis Arthuri (393r–395r). Dated: last quarter of the 13th century (1v–161v); middle of the 13th century (162r–393r); middle of the 14th century (393r–395r).
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ff. 2r–393r: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora. ff.150v: St Godric’s hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Boffey 2988). ff. 393r–395r: De gestis regis Arthuri. Decoration: 1 full-page map of the Mediterranean Sea, with colours (f. 1v). 4 bas-de-page scenes in outline drawing: Ramsey Abbey (f. 85v)...
Documents relating to the Anglo-French and Anglo-Scottish wars (4r–64v); coronation order of King Richard II of England (1377–99) (65r–69v); account of the coronation of Richard II, 16 July 1377 (70r–71v); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (72r–75r); chronicle of English history, Noah–AD 1377 (76r–81r); documents relating to the office of marshal of England (82r–92r)
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French and Latin; French (36r–56v)
The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey (‘the Golden Book of St Albans’)
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This manuscript contains the names and portraits of benefactors to the Abbey of St Albans with details of their gifts. The preface states that the register was established as part of the grant of confraternity set up by Abbot Thomas and was to be kept on the Abbey's high altar (f. 2r-v). The m...
This composite manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 3-175: A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum (4th quarter of the 12th century); ff. 176-344: Historical and scientific texts, including the Polychro...
A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum
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Contents: ff. 3r–63r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britannie; ff. 63r–71r: Historia Brittonum (Gildas recension); ff. 72r–135v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; ff. 135v-146v: Gesta Normmanorum ducum (redaction A); ff. 147r–159v: Robert de Torigni, Gesta Normmanorum ...
Contents: ff. 176r–183r: Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambrie (1st recension); ff. 183r–186r: Disputacio inter clericum et militem; ff. 186r-187r: De origine gigantium; ff. 187r–v: De longitudine et latitudine Anglie; ff. 188r-344v: Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon, to AD 1376. Decoration: ...
Contents: ff. 345r-347r: An account of the foundation of the abbey of St John, Colchester. Decoration: A tinted drawing of the abbey with a large roundel above containing a shield of arms surrounded by the inscription, 'Eudo filius Huberti de Rya fundator Monasteri' Colecestrensis' (f. 345r)....