These folios contain an imperfect Pontifical, including a Litany and the second English coronation ordo. It was copied between the second and third quarters of the 11th century. These folios were part of the same Pontifical as ff. 9-18
These folios contain fragment of the Pontifical which may have been owned by Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. These folios and ff. 39r-86v formed part of the same Pontifical, which was originally bound with the poem, law codes, and Benedictional found on ff. 31v-38v...
These folios include a relatively brief Benedictional which was made c. 1000. It originally supplemented the Pontifical found on ff. 106r-135v and 39r-86v.
Treatise on the calendar beginning ‘Naturalis abacus ob integrorum ac minutiarum barbaras figuras’ (3r–23v); Gerland (Garlandus), De abaco (25r–35v: Thorndike 848, 923); De manuali kalendario (37r–52v: Thorndike 562, 106); computistical treatise beginning ‘(F)inito manuali abaco, restat nunc ut promisimus’ (53r–59r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Letters of Popes Alexander III (1159–81), Lucius III (1181–85) and Urban III (1185–87) and others addressed primarily to the clergy of England, Scotland and Wales
Pseudo-John of Peterborough, Peterborough Chronicle, AD 654-868, 890-1368; William of Malmesbury Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Aldhelmi Episcopi; genealogy of King Henry II of England; Vita Sancti Erkenwaldi Episcopi; Vita Sancte Wenefrede Virginis; Miracula Sancte Wenefrede Virginis; Vita Sancti Neoti Abbatis; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Wulfstani Episcopi
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript of three parts. The first part, ff. 2r-45r, is a copy of the Peterborough Chronicle, copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century with a continuation added in the 17th century. The second part, ff. 46r-134r, includes William of Malmesbury's (b. c. 1080, d. 1143) Gest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 17th century