Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Miscellaneous historical, genealogical and heraldic papers, including copies of the charters of Earl’s Colne Priory (5r–18v), Hatfield Peverel Priory (42r–48v) and Coggeshall Abbey (49r–57r); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum, Ymagines historiarum and Opuscula (73r–80v: excerpts); Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum (188r–190r: excerpts); and Thomas Jenyns’ Book of Arms (236r–251v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English and Anglo-Norman French; Italian (122r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century