These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britannie (104r–107r: excerpts); Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie, to King Henry III of England (1216–1272) (107v–112r: Dean 13); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Uita Merlini (112v–138v); prose account of the kings of England to Henry III (139r–141v); genealogy of the rulers of Normandy and England (142v–143r); Prophecy of the Tenth Sibyl (143r–147v); Gossouin of Metz, Le ymage del munde (148r–152v: Dean 326); Reading Chronicle, AD 1–1285 (153r–201v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (107v–112r, 148v–152v)
Historical miscellany, including excerpts from the historical writings of Henry of Huntingdon, Ralph Niger and others (5r–23v); Chronicle of Lanercost Priory, 60 BC–AD 1346 (25r–245v), incorporating the couplet ‘Wille Gris, Wylle Gris’ (184v: Boffey 4174)
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Language(s): Latin; Middle English (184v); Anglo-Norman French (240v–241r, 243r–v) Dated: middle of the 14th century; middle of the 15th century (131r, 143r)
Episcopal and abbatial professions (17r–32v, 35r–38r); papal and royal letters and privileges (32r, 32v–35r, 40r–47v); account of the profession of Archbishop Thomas of York (47v–49r); canons of the Council of Winchester, 1072 (49r–50v); letters of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury (1070–1089), Pope Alexander II (1061–1073), Pope Paschal II (1099–1118) and Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury (1093–1109) (50v–53r, 54r–57v); canons of the Council of London, 1075 (53r–54r)
Register of Richard, duke of Gloucester (1461–85: King Richard III of England, 1483–85)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Middle English; Anglo-Norman French (145r–159v, 220r–221r) Dated: 2nd half of the 15th century; 2nd half of the 16th century (165v–166v, 224v, 244r–v, 252v, 253v–254r, 303r, 304r, 306r–312v, 313v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Contents: ff. 216r-223r: An annalistic chronicle including years with Roman numerals, ending in 1141. Much of the space remains unfilled; some has been filled by a later cursive hand (13th century). Decoration: Roman numerals in red. Letters highlighted in red.
Thomas Sprott, Chronicle of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, to AD 1221 (107r–168v), with a continuation to Abbot Thomas de Fyndon (1283–1310) (168v–174r); documents relating to St Augustine’s, Canterbury (175r–180r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 13th century; 1st quarter of the 14th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (117r, 168v–180r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Transcriptions from English chronicles and records by Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), comprising: Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio atque procursu Dunhelmensis ecclesie (93r–127v); Thomas Sprott and others, Chronicles (128r–147r); cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII) (148r–194v); Gregory of Caerwent, Chronicle (195r–203v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (93r–147r, 195r–203v); Latin and Old English (148r–194v)
