Cartulary of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, including lists of the kings of England, archbishops of Canterbury and abbots of St Augustine’s (1r–2v); Chronicle of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, AD 1–1237 (3r–21r); lists of Popes and Holy Roman emperors (21v–23v); the Rule of St Benedict (24r–39r); and the Award of Norham, 1291 (185v–186v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (112r, 185v–186v, 188r–189r, 259v–261r) Dated: 2nd quarter of the 13th century to 2nd quarter of the 15th century (1r–172v); last quarter of the 13th century to 3rd quarter of the 14th century (173r–264r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-2nd quarter of the 15th century
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Durham Chronicle, Brutus–AD 1309 (2r–121v); chronicle of Anglo-Scottish history, AD 1284–1329 (122r–124v); record of a dispute between Durham Cathedral Priory and William Wickwane, archbishop of York (1279–85) (125r–184r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 13th century (2r–118v, 125r–184r); last quarter of the 13th century to 2nd quarter of the 14th century (119r–124v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd quarter of the 14th century
Contents: ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in t...