Contents: ff. 70r-106v: Abstract of charters from Tewkesbury Abbey. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red. Small (one-line) initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Hugh of Fouilloy, De claustro anime, ii.11–23 (190r–201r); Bernard of Clairvaux and others, Sermones de beata Maria uirgine (201r–205r); prologue to the Pater noster (205v: Boffey 519); Pater noster (205v: Boffey 2706); Ave Maria (205v: Boffey 1062); prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus (205v: Boffey 2037)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 12th century; 1st half of the 13th century (205v) Languages: Latin; Middle English (205v)
This folio contains part of a chronicle written in Old English. It covers the end of the entry for 1113 AD and the beginning of the entry for 1114. The leaf has been bound the wrong way round in this manuscript (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 188). Decoration: Initial in red (f. 9v).
These folios contain a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written in both Old English and Latin, known as the 'F' text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It was probably produced at Christ Church Canterbury in the late 11th or early 12th century. Decoration: red initials (ff. 30r and 31r); faded r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Customs and ordinances of the city of London; John Lydgate, The Order of Fools (194v–195v: Boffey 3444); Reconciliation of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) with the Yorkists, 1458 (196v–197v: Boffey 3929)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French and Latin; Middle English (156v, 165v, 177r, 193v, 194v–197v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 14th century; last quarter of the 14th century to 2nd half of the 15th century (116v–117r, 156v, 165v, 177r–197v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Chronicle of English history, AD 1042–1346 (incomplete)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an imperfect chronicle of English history, between 1042-1346. Most of the text is written in Anglo-Norman, and there is some Latin (ff. 185r–195r, 197v–198v). Decoration: large initial in gold on a red and blue background with botanical details (f. 121r); initials in red an...
These folios contain the D-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle covering the years 60 BC–AD 261, 409–633, 693–1079, 1080 (recte 1130?). The majority of the text was copied between the middle of the 11th century and the first half of the 12th century. 9 supply leaves were added in the sixteenth cent...
These folios contain a 12th-century copy of an abbreviation of the Domesday survey of Kent. These membranes originally formed a roll, but have been cut apart and rearranged in book form (see Clarke, 'Condensing and Abbreviating' (2016), p. 258). Contents: ff. 143r-156r: Domesday abbreviation ...
ff. 173r-178r: Verses on the life of Henry V, followed by prayers for his commemoration, 'Intencio auctoris edita ad laudem dei . et commendacionem Regis Henrici Quinti'. Decoration: Small initials in blue.