Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
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This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
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Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
ff. 1r–84v: A volume of collections relating to the Crown regalia and jewels, annotated throughout by the antiquarian Thomas Astle (1735–1803). ff. 1r–54v: Extracts from the Patent Rolls, Wardrobe Accompts, and other public records, from the reigns of John to Henry VI, including (ff. 11r–23v) a...
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
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This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation, and royal entrée into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 15...
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
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This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
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This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
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Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington
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Receipt by Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, confirming she and the convent had received from George [Talbot] (1468-1538), earl of Shropshire [Shrewsbury], £26 30s 4d, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington, Derbyshire, and the hou...
