These folios contain the obituary calendar of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Beauchief, compiled between the mid-13th century and the 1st half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 4r-27v: the obituary calendar of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Beauchief. Decoration: Each month begins with la...
These folios contain a copy of Aldhelm's Epistola ad Heahfridum (ff. 3r–7v), copied in the first half of the 11th century. Glosses in Old English were added close to the time the main text was copied (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 149). Decoration: Initial in green with red penwork decoration...
Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England, AD 1307 (171r–172r: Dean 66); Nicholas Bozon, Tretys de la Passion (172r–174v: Dean 688); Nicholas Bozon (attributed), Lament of the Virgin (174v–177r: Dean 956); The Prophecies of Merlin (177v–179r: Dean 18); Award of Norham (179r–180r); ballad on the Scottish wars (180r–181v: Boffey 379); verse account of the Battle of Mansourah, 1250 (181v–187r: Dean 69); Prose Lancelot (187v: Dean 168, imperfect)
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (171r–180r, 181v–187v); Latin (179r); Middle English (180r–181v) Dated: 1st half of the 14th century (171r–187r); 2nd half of the 14th century (187v)