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1491. Royal MS 14 C VI

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Royal MS 14 C VI
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Scope & Content:
'FLORES HISTORIARVM': the abridgement of the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, extending from the Creation to 1259, Prepared at St. Albans Abbey and continued there to 1265, and further continued at Westminster to 1326. Attributed by its first editor Archbishop Parker (1567), on the evidence of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1492. Royal MS 14 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII
Title:
Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two autograph copies of historical works by Matthew Paris with prefatory material: 1. Maps and other prefatory material including a diagram of Winds, the Itinerary from London to the Holy Land, Easter tables and a calendar (ff. 1v-8r); 2. Matthew Paris, Historia Angloru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1259
Extent:

232 folios.

1493. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r

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Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r
Title:
Maps and other prefatory material
Scope & Content:
Prefatory material including: 1. Diagram of Winds (f. 1v); similar to one in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 16. f. 1v; 2. Itinerary from London to the Holy Land with images of towns, their names, and descriptions of places (ff. 2r-5r); 3. Map of Britain, with indications of a great hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1259
Extent:
8 folios.

1494. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v
Title:
Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:
The only complete copy of the Historia Anglorum, a history of England covering the years 1070-1253, probably composed and written by Matthew Paris in the period between 1250-1255 (ff. 10r-156v). Prologue incipit: 'De chronographia, id est temporum descripcione'; text incipit: 'Anno dominice inca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1259
Extent:
148 folios.

1495. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r
Title:
Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora, with a continuation
Scope & Content:
The autograph copy of the Chronica Maiora, Part III, by Matthew Paris, covering the years 1254-1259 (the date of Paris's death) (ff. 157r-218v); incipit: 'Anno domini m cc liiii qui est annus domini regis H III xxxciii'. Includes numerous marginal notes and additions by the author. The first two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1250-15th century
Extent:
75 folios.

1496. Royal MS 14 C VIII

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Royal MS 14 C VIII
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Scope & Content:
1. HEGESIPPUS, De excidio Iudeorum, in five books. Title 'In hoc corpore continentur Egesippi historiae libri numero quinque cum Dei adiutorio'. Cf. 13 C. X, art. 2. Without subscription. f. 1. Art. 2 is added in a later hand (12th cent.?) as a fly-leaf. 2. An exhortation to study, in 66 Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 11th century
Extent:
1 item

1497. Royal MS 14 C X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C X
Title:
Scope & Content:
HISTORIA HIEROSOLIMITANA, by William, Archbishop of Tyre (circ. 1174-1190), with continuation, &c., viz.: 1. Brief deseription of the Holy Land, in Latin. Cap. i is entitied 'De situ terre Ierosolimitanc et habitatoribus eius', and beg. 'Terra Ierosolimitana in centro mundi posita est'. Pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

1498. Royal MS 14 C XI

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Royal MS 14 C XI
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Scope & Content:
GODEFRIDUS VITERBIENSIS, Pantheon; preceded by a table of contents, divided into 19 'particulae'. Prologue (f. 10), addressed to Pope Urban III (whose name, however, is not given), beg. 'Summo et vniversali pape, &c.: Dum sacrosancte matris nostre'; it is longer than that given in the printe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1499. Royal MS 14 C XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C XII
Title:
Scope & Content:
R. HIGDEN, Polychronicon; cf. 13 D. I, art. 1. Preceded by an alphabetical index (ff. 2-8), and a plan of the world, giving names only, without boundaries (f. 9b). The text in libb. i, ii abounds with alterations, many passages (often of considerable length) being written over erasures, and othe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1500. Royal MS 14 C XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. R. HIGDEN, Polychronicon; cf. 13 D. I, art. 1. Preceded by an alphabetical index (ff. 3-10), and the 'introitus' (beg. 'Quoniam de insule') and table of chapters to the Expugnatio Hibemiae of Giraldus Cam. brensis (f. 11 b). The prologue (f. 14) is in the shorter form beg. 'In historico namqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

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