Excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto; Altercatio inter Urbanum et Clementem
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These folios, copied in England in the mid-12th century, include: ff.106r–109r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, i.25–27, 29; ff. 109r–110v: Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto; ff. 111r–113v: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, i.25–27, 29, v.12–14, 16–17; f. 113v: A...
Letter-book of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York
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The collection compromises a selection of letters of Alcuin (d. 804), abbot of St Martin, Tours and royal advisor, of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of Canterbury, and others, and various ecclesiastical decrees and documents from England. There are minor corrections made ...
f. 1v: Procession to Calvary miniature, attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders.
f. 28r: A crucifixion miniature, attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders.
f. 103v: Miniature of the deposition and entombment of Christ, attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders.
Libellus quorundam insignium operum beati Æthelwoldi episcopi
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ff. 2r–27v: Libellus quorundam insignium operum beati Æthelwoldi episcopi. Account of Æthelwold’s refoundation of Ely abbey and of the properties he granted to it. ‘Incipit prologus libelli quorundam insignium operum beati æðelwoldi episcopi. Cum preteritarum notitia rerum ignorantię tenebris qu...
ff. 61r–75r: Arbitrium between John Fordham, bishop of Ely (1388–1425), and the prior and convent of Ely, 1417; ff. 76r–98v: Names of the tenants of Ely Cathedral Priory; ff 99v–102v: Charter of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471), dated 1417 and c. 1438 (f. 102r–v).