List of burials at the Franciscan convent of Newgate, London (274r–305v), with an index (306r–316r); narrative of the foundation and benefactions of the Franciscan convent of Newgate, London (317r–329v); lists of Franciscan martyrs, bishops, cardinals, master-generals, masters of the English province and royal benefactors (330r–337v); chronicle of the city of London, AD 1189–1555 (338r–365v); genealogical account from Adam to King Edward VI of England (1547–1553) (366r–393v)
The main part of this Pontifical was written by two German scribes in the mid-11th century. Thirteenth English scribes have added materials on blank spaces and additional leaves in the second half of the 11th century according to Wilcox, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2000) and Morgan, The Production ...
Letter-books (59r–90v); registers of the chapter of York Minster, 1396–1398, 1480–1500 (91r–147r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (116v) Dated: last quarter of the 14th century (59r–130v); last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century (131r–147r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
John of Fordun, Chronica gentis Scottorum (3r–v, 5r–33v, 35r–83v, 169r–176v: imperfect); John Walton’s translation of Boethius, De consolatione Philosophiae (4v: Boffey 2820, excerpt); Gesta Annalia, AD 1153–1363 (84r–114r, 116r–166v: imperfect); verse beginning ‘O felix mortale genus, si semper haberet’ (114v: Walther 12632); verse beginning ‘Scotica fit guerra, pedites’ (177r: Walther 17368)
Contents: This manuscript was formerly bound together with the Coronation Book of Charles V of France, numbered ff. 35-80, now Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2. The folio numbering of this part (ff. 3-34, 81-197) is that of the composite volume, bound together by Cotton in the 17th century as Cotton...
Register of the bishopric of Ely, including a pasted cyrograph (357v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman French Dated: 1st half of the 14th century to last quarter of the 16th century; 3rd quarter of the 13th century (357v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-4th quarter of the 16th century