Treaties and diplomatic correspondence of the kings of France, Castile and León, Scotland and England, and of Owain Glyn Dŵr, prince of Wales (d. c. 1416) (32v–40v)
Extracts from the registers of Peterborough Abbey, (a) Cotton MS Vespasian E XXII (3r–34r) and (b) Cotton MS Vespasian E XXI, §III (37r–44r), transcribed by John Vincent (d. 1671)
Letter of the Patriarch of Alexandria concerning the schism in the Church of Rome (256r–268v); the Assize of Clarendon, AD 1166, and related documents (269r–277v); description of Britain (278r–279r)
This folio, copied in the 1st quarter of the 12th century, contains papal letters. Like ff. 2r-7v, it was excised from Cotton Tiberius A II, a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church by the mid-10th century. It includes: f. 9*r: the end of a letter, which mentions 'frater Bertualdus Cantua...
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)....