Unidentified theological text (f. 94r–v: imperfect); Hildebert of Lavardin (Le Mans), Carmina i, ix (f. 95v: Walther 11711, 18382): 1st half of the 13th century; Latin; origin British Isles; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Cronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum, to Pope Urban IV (1261–64) (ff. 3r–14r); Bonizo of Sutri, Cronica Romanorum pontificum (ff. 15r–30r); Cronica regum Mannie et insularum [Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles], AD 1000–1316, with a record of the bishops of the Western Isles to John Donkan (1374–87) (ff. 31r–52r); territorial survey (ff. 53r–54v): 3rd quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 14th century; Latin; origin Rushen Abbey; owned by John Leland (d. 155...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-4th quarter of the 14th century
Breviary (the 'Breviary of Margaret of York'), fragment
Scope & Content:
A leaf from the Breviary of Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy (now Cambridge, St John's College, ms H. 13), used as a frontispiece. The original border includes an image of King David praying, painted by the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, the coat of arms of Margaret of York impaling tho...
Thureth; Anglo-Saxon lawcode VI Æthelred, in Latin and Old English
Scope & Content:
These folios, copied between 1008 (when the lawcode was issued) and 1023 (when Wulfstan, archbishop of York, who may have annotated it, died), contain: f. 31v: Thureth, an Old English verse preface written from the point of view of a 'halgungboc' (a benedictional or pontifical); ff. 32r-35r: ...
Contents: ff. 70r-106v: Abstract of charters from Tewkesbury Abbey. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red. Small (one-line) initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Hugh of Fouilloy, De claustro anime, ii.11–23 (190r–201r); Bernard of Clairvaux and others, Sermones de beata Maria uirgine (201r–205r); prologue to the Pater noster (205v: Boffey 519); Pater noster (205v: Boffey 2706); Ave Maria (205v: Boffey 1062); prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus (205v: Boffey 2037)
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Dated: last quarter of the 12th century; 1st half of the 13th century (205v) Languages: Latin; Middle English (205v)
This folio contains part of a chronicle written in Old English. It covers the end of the entry for 1113 AD and the beginning of the entry for 1114. The leaf has been bound the wrong way round in this manuscript (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 188). Decoration: Initial in red (f. 9v).
These folios contain a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written in both Old English and Latin, known as the 'F' text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It was probably produced at Christ Church Canterbury in the late 11th or early 12th century. Decoration: red initials (ff. 30r and 31r); faded r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Customs and ordinances of the city of London; John Lydgate, The Order of Fools (194v–195v: Boffey 3444); Reconciliation of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) with the Yorkists, 1458 (196v–197v: Boffey 3929)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French and Latin; Middle English (156v, 165v, 177r, 193v, 194v–197v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 14th century; last quarter of the 14th century to 2nd half of the 15th century (116v–117r, 156v, 165v, 177r–197v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 15th century