Cotton MS Claudius D II, ff 4–27, 33–43, 45–118, 127–138, 269–280
Title:
Statutes of England, Ine of Wessex (688–726)–Edward II (1307–1327), including the Tribal Hidage (4v) (‘Liber Legum Regum Antiquorum’)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (134r–136r, 269r–278v, 280r–v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 14th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (278v–279r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
De fundatoribus ecclesiarum per Angliam (5r); prophecies (5v, 27r–v); description of Rome (10r–11r); De uiris illustribus quo tempore scripserunt (13v–14r); index to Flores historiarum (18r–26v); list of the priors of Norwich Cathedral Priory (26v); Flores historiarum, AM 1–AD 1307 (27v–240r); Adam Murimuth, Chronicon, AD 1303–1340 (242r–253v); ecclesiastical lists (268r–272v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; French (253v–254r, 256r–259v, 261r–262v)
William of Wycombe, Speculum uite Roberti Herefordensis episcopi (2r–28r); genealogy of the lords of Brecknock (28r–30r: Dean 9); history of Llanthony Priory and Lanthony Secunda Priory (31r–53v)
Aelred of Rievaulx, De institutionis inclusarum (2r–43v); Antony the Hermit, Uita sancti Symeonis monachi (43v–53r: BHL 7957); Uita sancte Marine uirginis (53v–56v: BHL 5528); Ps.-Jerome, Liber adhortationum sanctorum patrum (56v–74v); Patrick of Dublin, De tribus habitaculis anime (75r–83r); Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio (83r–85v); De diz comandemenz en la lei (85v–88r); De dusze articles de la fei (88r–89v); De set sacremenz (89v)
Augustinian constitutions of Pope Benedict XII (1335–1342), 1339 (2r–39v); letter of Benedict XII to the English Augustinians, 1339 (40r–41v); statutes of the English Augustinian Chapters, 1325–1404 (41v–62v); Chapter of Leicester, 1518 (63r–70v)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 14th century (2r–62r); 1st quarter of the 15th century (62r–v); 1st quarter of the 16th century (63r–70v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Contents: f. 122r: fragment of Amalarius, Liber de officialis, book III. f. 122v: fragment of a prayer. f. 123v: a note at the head top of the folio. f. 124r: pen trial of the 14th century. An earlier inscription has been erased in the right margin. f. 125v: 11th and 12th century notes. Se...
These folios contain the 'Harleian recension' of Historia Brittonum, copied at Rochester in first half of the 12th century. The remainder of this text is now Royal 15 A XXII. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
