Chronicle of Walden Abbey, AM 1–1321 (68r–89v); chronicle of the kings of England, William I–Edward IV (89v–91v); note of the number of parish churches, towns and knights’ fees in England (91v–92v)
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Languages: Latin (68r–89v); Middle English (89v–92v)
Contents: ff. 2r-61v: The Hagnaby Chronicle. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, blue or green, some with penwork decoration. Numerous small initials in red and blue. Highlighting in red.
Wace, Roman de Brut (19r–115v: Dean 2); verse-chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings of England (115v–137v: Dean 24); Wace, La conception Notre Dame (123v–127r: Dean 489); verse beginning ‘(R)umor nouus Anglie partes pererrauit’ (138r–v: Walther 16929, imperfect)
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French; Latin (138r–v) Dated: last quarter of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century (123v–127r, 138r–v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Dossier relating to the claims of the English Crown to have sovereignty in Scotland, AD 1291–1293 (178r–233r); notes, documents and excerpts from chronicles concerning Anglo-Scottish relations (234r–255r)
Ordinary of arms for emperors (151r), kings (151v–154v) and the English nobility (160r–338r), primarily in the hand of Robert Glover (d. 1588); Sibylla Hippocratis, beginning ‘Consuluit Phæbum nuper Cecilius Heros’ (339r)
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Dated: 2nd half of the 16th century to 1st quarter of the 17th century (150r–338r); 2nd quarter of the 17th century (339r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-2nd quarter of the 17th century
Historical and topographical papers of William Camden (d. 1623), incorporating items concerning Mary, queen of Scots (1542–67; d. 1587), Elizabeth I, queen of England (1558–1603), and Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex (d. 1601), and including the charges brought against Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530), 1529–30 (36v–41v); the indictment of Sir Walter Raleigh, (d. 1618), 1603 (78v); The Deuise for alteratione of religione (167r–169r); a table of the weights of English and Scottish coins (f. ...
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Dated: 2nd half of the 16th century to middle of the 17th century
Martinus Polonus, Chronicle (ff. 1r–38r); musical staves with neums (f. 38v)
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Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle (13th century); f. 38r: An added paragraph from Henry of Huntington's Chronicle (15th century); f. 38v: Part of the Gloria, written above musical staves with neums (14th century). Decoration: Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata; Versus ad coniugem with Old English gloss
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Contents: Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata, fragment (ff. 166r–v, 165v); Prosper of Aquitaine, Uersus ad coniugem, fragment (ff. 165v–r: Schaller Initia carminum 458 ), 3rd quarter of the 9th century, with an Old English gloss dated to the 1st half of the 11th century. The pages are misbound ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 11th century
