Notes of historical events, 1536-1542 (ff. 27-28); Richard of Bardney, Metrical Life of Robert Grosseteste, and poem on Hugh of Lincoln (ff. 29-54); Passion of St Kenelm, Life of St Edward the Confessor, Life of St Guthlac, and Life of St Aelphege (ff. 55-64)
Chronicle of English history to AD 1446 (1r–31r); Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon, to AD 1422 (32r–195v); Honorius of Autun (Augustodunensis), De imagine mundi (196r–208v); Roger Bacon, Opus maius (De situ orbis) (209r–221v); Bede, De locis sanctis (222r–227v); epitome of ‘Sir John Mandeville’, Travels (227v–232v); Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium (232v–237v: BHL 6303–6313); memorandum relating to King Henry VI of England (1422–61, 1470–71) (238r–v)
A collection of travellers' accounts of the East, including La Fleur des Histoires de la terre d'Orient, translated by Jean d'Ypres; Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Six texts on the Orient, including a set of letters, compiled and translated into French in 1351 by Jean d'Ypres or Jean le Long, Abbot of St Bertin from 1365 to 1383 (ff. 1-85v); Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine (ff. 86r-150v). The foliation for the contents is that of the re-mounte...