Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6; Cronica de Kirkstall; Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie; Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts that were produced in different places and periods of time. The first part (ff. 3-54) contains a chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6. The second part (ff. 57-140) contains another chronicle from Brutus to 1430, with the added title Cronica de Kirksta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 14th century
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites; transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, including maps by Laurence Nowell; Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII; treatises on heraldry
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises four separate manuscripts, made at various times and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631). (1) ff. 2–36: a collection of treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites and related subjects, made in England in the 4th quarter of the 15th century. (2) ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin