Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory the Great; history of the kings of Britain and England attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three items which were bound together in the early modern period. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: an early modern table of contents and a list; ff. 2r-58v: Old English homilies, a coronation oath, Ælfric's translation of the Pater Noster, and an Old English transl...
Historical collections of Francis Thynne (d. 1608), including a history of Tewkesbury Abbey to AD 1476 (210r–224v); Chronicle of Lichfield (229v–254r); Chronicle of Little Dunmow Priory, AD 1104–1501 (281r–287r); and materials relating to Whalley Abbey (315r–328v)