These folios contain the obituary calendar of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Beauchief, compiled between the mid-13th century and the 1st half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 4r-27v: the obituary calendar of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Beauchief. Decoration: Each month begins with la...
These folios contain a copy of Aldhelm's Epistola ad Heahfridum (ff. 3r–7v), copied in the first half of the 11th century. Glosses in Old English were added close to the time the main text was copied (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 149). Decoration: Initial in green with red penwork decoration...
Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England, AD 1307 (171r–172r: Dean 66); Nicholas Bozon, Tretys de la Passion (172r–174v: Dean 688); Nicholas Bozon (attributed), Lament of the Virgin (174v–177r: Dean 956); The Prophecies of Merlin (177v–179r: Dean 18); Award of Norham (179r–180r); ballad on the Scottish wars (180r–181v: Boffey 379); verse account of the Battle of Mansourah, 1250 (181v–187r: Dean 69); Prose Lancelot (187v: Dean 168, imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (171r–180r, 181v–187v); Latin (179r); Middle English (180r–181v) Dated: 1st half of the 14th century (171r–187r); 2nd half of the 14th century (187v)
Chronicle of the city of London, AD 1189–1483 (2r–90v: imperfect), including John Lydgate, ‘Sotelties’ at the Coronation Banquet of Henry VI (79v: Boffey 1929); list of the lord mayors of London, 1509–31 (92v); battle-ordinances for the invasion of Scotland, 1386 (95v–96r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Middle English and Latin; Anglo-Norman French (93v–94r, 95v–96r) Dated: last quarter of the 15th century; 1st half of the 16th century (91v–98v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
On the coronation of the king of England (165r–169r: imperfect); The maner of makynge of knyghtes (169v–170v); The ordynance of a kynge whan he shall goo to his procession (171r–172r); account of the coronation of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471), 6 November 1429 (172r–173v), incorporating John Lydgate, Sotelties at the coronation banquet of Henry VI (173r–v: Boffey 1929); account of the marriage of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (d. 1477), and Margaret of York (d. 1503), 1...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (165r–168v); Anglo-Norman French (168v–169r); Middle English (169v–177v)
Miscellaneous historical and heraldic papers, including a chronicle of the kings of England, Brutus–Henry IV (7v–15v); an account of the coronation of King Richard II (1377–1399) (29v–31r); an account of the coronation of King Edward IV of England (1461–1470, 1471–1483) (32r–34v); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (35v–39v); Modus faciendi duellum coram rege (39v–43r); the coronation oath of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547) (89r–v); an account of the coronation of King Henry VIII of England (1...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, Anglo-Norman French and English; Old English (218v) Dated: 2nd half of the 15th century to 1st half of the 17th century
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
