Aelred of Rievaulx, Uita sancti Edwardi regis (3r–44r); Aelred of Rievaulx, De genealogia regum Anglorum (44r–68r); Aelred of Rievaulx, Uita sancti Niniani (68r–80r); Aelred of Rievaulx, De sanctis ecclesie Hagustaldensis (80r–96v); Passio sancte Agathe uirginis (96v–99v: imperfect)
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Flyleaves containing traces of a now illegible text in a 16th century ?Humanistic hand (f. 1), over which Robert Cotton has written binding instructions; a table of contents in the hand of Richard James (d. 1638), Robert Cotton's librarian (f. 3r); a stanza from John of Ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex consisting of 40 folios, bound together with ff 131-144 in a single volume.
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)
Calendar (2r–7v); Ps.-Ambrose of Milan, De gradibus uirtutum (8r–11r: incomplete); Bede (attributed), Martyrologium (12r–56v); verses for calculating the date of Easter, 1349–1522 (56v–58r); lections for feast-days in the diocese of Norwich (58r–68v)
Excerpts from historical and genealogical records, including Domesday Book (8r–94v); the Exchequer Rolls (108r–141r); and a cartulary of Bermondsey Priory (Abbey) (150v–153r); with an index (186r–194r)