Verses on the calendar and other computistical notes; Revelatio beatae Hildegardis
Scope & Content:
These folios contain verses on the calendar and other computistical notes (ff. 12r–16v) and a text entitled Revelatio beatae Hildegardis (ff. 17r–v), copied in the mid-14th century. Decoration: highlights in red (ff. 12r-13r).
Walter of Guisborough, Chronicle; historical miscellany, including notes on Anglo-Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:
These folios contain: ff. 91r-210v: Walter of Guisborough's chronicle for the years 1066–1305; ff. 211r-218v: historical miscellany, including notes on Anglo-Scottish affairs, 1290–1314 (212v). Decoration: initials in red and blue with penwork, highlights and rubrics in red throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios include: f. 5r: Alcuin's Carmen xviii, copied in the second half of the 10th century; 5v–36v: Frithegod's Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, numbers 8891–92), copied in the mid-10th century, soon after the text was composed for Oda, archbishop of...
Letter-book of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Contents: ff. 3r-54r: A Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6. ff. 55r-56r: A table of contents for the preceding chronicle. [ff. 54v, 56v are blank]. Decoration: Medium and small initials in brown ink.
These folios contain a series of letters copied in early 11th century, possibly at Canterbury. They were damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731 and are illegible in some parts. The bulk of the manuscript contains around 126 letters of Alcuin (ff. 1-144v). Further letters by various authors...
Alphabets; fragment of Jerome, De Formis Hebraicarum Litterarum;Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This folio contains alphabets or pseudo-alphabets, part of a fragment of Jerome's De Formis Hebraicarum Litterarum (8r), and Dionysius Exiguus's computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (8r–v: imperfect), copied in the second half of the 8th century.
Miniature of a man seated at a writing-desk and medieval memoranda
Scope & Content:
This folio includes: f. 30r: a miniature of a man (Burchard of Worms?) seated at a writing-desk, created in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century; f. 30v: medieval memoranda, including a verse inscription and a Greek alphabet, some of which were copied in the middle of the 12th century and som...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...