Chronicle of English history, from Ascanius to 1327
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Contents: Chronicle of English history, from Ascanius to 1327, with an addition in cursive at the end (f. 164v) Decoration: One initial in gold on a rose and blue ground (f. 107r). A circular diagram of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms (f. 133r). Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Rubrics an...
These folios contain a series of documents pertaining to Christ Church which originally formed part of a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church (Cotton MS Tiberius A II). All the documents are in Latin, apart from those on ff. 4r-6r, and they were copied in the 11th century. They include: ...
Miscellaneous historical texts, including De mirabilibus Anglie
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Contents: Miscellaneous historical texts, including: ff. 242v-243v: List of English monarchs from Aethelbert to Edward I in Anglo-Norman French; f. 243v: A brief list of Scottish monarchs; f. 244r: Genealogy of Aethelwulf; ff. 245v-246v: De mirabilibus Anglie; ff. 247r-248r: A list of Eng...
Contents: ff. 7v-239v: Collectio Lanfranci (Lanfranc's Collection), beginning: ‘Clemens urbis romae episcopus Iacobo hyerosolimorum episcopo’ preceded by two rubrics ‘incipiunt excerpta ex decretis Romanorum pontificum’ and ‘Epistola Clementis Papae ad Iacobum Ierosolimorum episcopum’. Decorat...
Chronicle of Worcester Cathedral Priory, AD 1–1308, with a continuation to 1377 (65r–192v); notes relating to the bishops of Worcester, AD 798–957 (195r–196r); Breuis annotatio regum tam Anglorum quam Normannorum (197r–200r); Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl (200r–204v); miscellaneous prose texts (204v–207r); verse beginning ‘Rex Aluredus erat primus rex Angligenarum’ (207v–208v)
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (165r–166r, 167r–v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
ff. 1r-4v: A fragment of two three-part settings of Gloria in excelsis, with notes on a 5-line stave, written in the second half of the 14th century. Now disordered, the correct order is: ff. 2v, 3v, 2r, 3r, and ff. 4r, 1v, 4v, 1r. Decoration: Capital letters at the start of a sentence highlig...
These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century