This manuscript contains Abbreviatio compendiosa chronicorum Anglie (Brief Abridgement of the Chronicles of England), Matthew Paris's summary of his Historia Anglorum, covering the history of England from 1000 to 1255. The rest of the manuscript is predominantly made up of fragmented historical ...
This folio was removed from Cotton MS Claudius D VI, a manuscript including Matthew Paris's Abbreuiatio chronicorum. This is folio 12 of that manuscript, comprising the end of the genealogy of the kings of England (f. 12r) and a map of Britain (f. 12v), said to have been drawn by Matthew Paris h...
Contents:f. 1: early modern paper endleaf, containing on f. 1r a list of contents in the hand of Richard James (d. 1638).f. 2: modern paper endleaf, containing on f. 2v a pasted printed ownership label of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617): 'Henry Savill ... oweth thys booke ...'.ff. 3r–4v: an unide...