Contents: ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle entitled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’. f. 7v: computistical tables. Decoration: Highlighting in red.
Battle Chronicle ('Short Chronicle'); Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli ('Long Chronicle')
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Contents: ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle’, beginning: ‘Quoniam de situ et institucione loci nostri ecclesie scilicet beati Martini de Bello aliquanta iam memorie commendata ad posterorum monimentum nobis in promptu habentur’, ending: ‘Pro mortuis, abbas nichil cum al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Contents: ff. 131r-142r: An untitled Chronicle to AD 1292, partially illegible, beginning: ‘in Vallia Iuor filius Tad’ Walad’ regnavit super Wallenses xlix annis’. ff. 142r-144r: An entitled Summary of the Brut, beginning: ‘[B]rutus entra la terre que ore est apele Engelterre’, and ending: ‘il...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Breuiarium regum Anglorum, from the foundation of Britain to the reign of King Edward IV of England (1461–1470, 1471–1483) (58r–239v); verse beginning ‘Uos qui estis inspecturi’ (240r–241v); Welsh verse (242r–v); verse beginning ‘Qui plus expendit quam lucri summa (rependit)’ (243v–244r: Walther 15605)
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Language(s): Latin; English (233r–235r); Welsh (242r–v) Dated: 2nd half of the 15th century; 16th century (242r–v)