Historical collections of Francis Thynne (d. 1608), including a history of Tewkesbury Abbey to AD 1476 (210r–224v); Chronicle of Lichfield (229v–254r); Chronicle of Little Dunmow Priory, AD 1104–1501 (281r–287r); and materials relating to Whalley Abbey (315r–328v)
Alan of Lille, Anticlaudianus (2r–45r); Brutus, dedicated to Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (1153–95) (45v–52r: Walther 3231); summarium of Anticlaudianus (52v–53v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
These 97 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Vitellius E XIII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript is made up of two main parts: a 14th-century chronicle of English history, covering the per...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Medieval endleaves (ff. 1–4); John of Bologna, Summa notarie (5r–28v: incomplete); Aegidius de Fuscarariis, Ordo iudiciarius (29r–97r); Thomas of Capua, Summa de arte dictandi (101r–204v); medieval endleaves (ff. 205–208)
Miscellaneous political and historical tracts (originals and copies), including Richard Morison, A Persuasion to the King that the Law of his Realm should be in Latin (5r–22r: draft); The Policy and Government of the Duchy of Florence (30r–38r); and Calender or Cataloge off Mr Cotton’s 4 bookes ABCD of Treaties, Actes and Monuments, 1600 (204r–206v)
Papers relating to heraldry, including Certein Questions ... touching the Baronnetts (23r–v) and Reasons for the place and precedencie of the Serieants at the Lawe (26r–v), with an index (31r–v)
Records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1520–1560
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 218, simul cum superiore compactus. [These two vols. have been (1902) rearranged in chronological order:- Cal. E. I. circ. 1416-1521. Cal. E. II. 1522-1555.] 1. Henry VIII, to Francis I; in answer to letters received by Tarbe. [i. e. Gabriel de Gramo...
Records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1567–1576
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans, foliis 399. [E. VI. See Rymer, vol. xvi. 20, 22, 23-27, 29, 53.] 1. Q. Elizabeth; her commission to sir Tho. Smith, &c. to demand possession of Calais. (Orig. Lat. on vellum.) Westm. March 26, 1567. 1. 2. Copy of an instrument, declaring the manner of ...
