Contents: ff. 113r-128r: Vita Afrae Metrice, usually attributed to 'Master Rufus'. Decoration: A decorated initial (f. 113r). Initials in red, blue and green.
Dicta attributed to Augustine of Hippo and others (2r–3r); Sextus (trans. Rufinus), Sententie (Anulus, Enchiridion) (3r–5v); Eckbert of Schönau, Uisio Elizabeth Schonaugiensi de assumptione Marie uirginis (6r); Cassiodorus, Institutiones (6r–10r: incomplete); Isidore of Seville, De ortu et obitu Patrum (10r–16v); Isidore of Seville, Allegoriae quaedam sacrae scripturae (16v–22v); Bede, De natura rerum (22v–26v); Apocalypsis Golie (26v–29v, 30v: Walther 91); Jerome, De uiris illustribus (31r–4...
Scope & Content:
Dated: 1st half of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century (130v–132v)
Third English Coronation Order (‘Claudius Pontifical III’)
Scope & Content:
These folios describe the coronation of Henry I of England and include his Coronation Ordo and were copied in the 12th century. It may originally have been part of a Pontifical. A later medieval image depicting a coronation was added to the top of f. 19r.
Extracts from English monastic cartularies and registers, including Breedon Priory (79r), Worcester Cathedral Priory (85r–103r), Tewkesbury Abbey (104r–105r), Christchurch Priory (108r–110r), Bermondsey Priory (115r–122v), Ely Cathedral Priory (123r–127v), Eynsham Abbey (131r–139r), Evesham Abbey (140r) and Monk Bretton Priory (140v–141v); letter of the abbot of Bangor to Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 604) (82r); note on the bishopric of St Davids (82v)
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Language(s): Latin; Old English (80r–81v); Welsh and English (82r–v)
Chronicle of Dunstable Priory, AM1–AD 1297 (5r–89v); cartulary of Dunstable Priory (89v–115r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (5r–89v); Anglo-Norman French (79r–v); Latin and Anglo-Norman French (89v–115r); Middle English (113r) Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 13th century (5r–89v); 1st quarter of the 14th century to 3rd quarter of the 15th century (89v–115r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
John Mirk, Festial, with verse prologue (3v–125v: Group A, Boffey 462, 956.5, 4068.3); notes on excommunication (125v–128r: Boffey 3372); excommunication ritual (128v: Boffey 1088.11); John Mirk, Instructions for parish priests (129r–154v: Boffey 961); principal feast-days of the year (154v–155r); notes on various popes (155v–156r)
