Chronicle of English history to AD 1446 (1r–31r); Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon, to AD 1422 (32r–195v); Honorius of Autun (Augustodunensis), De imagine mundi (196r–208v); Roger Bacon, Opus maius (De situ orbis) (209r–221v); Bede, De locis sanctis (222r–227v); epitome of ‘Sir John Mandeville’, Travels (227v–232v); Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium (232v–237v: BHL 6303–6313); memorandum relating to King Henry VI of England (1422–61, 1470–71) (238r–v)
A collection of travellers' accounts of the East, including La Fleur des Histoires de la terre d'Orient, translated by Jean d'Ypres; Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Six texts on the Orient, including a set of letters, compiled and translated into French in 1351 by Jean d'Ypres or Jean le Long, Abbot of St Bertin from 1365 to 1383 (ff. 1-85v); Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine (ff. 86r-150v). The foliation for the contents is that of the re-mounte...
Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (1r–25v, 28r–v, 35r–47v, 49r) and Ymagines historiarum (28v–34r, 48r–v, 49r–97v); Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum (98r–v: imperfect); Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (99r–122v: ?version 5, redaction A, imperfect); unidentified medieval texts (123r–124v, 125v)
Scope & Content:
Dated: 1st half of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century (125v)
Calendar; Passional (February–March), comprising: Passio Sancti Ignatii; Vita Sancte Brigide Virginis; Passio Sancti Blasii Episcopi; Passio Sancti Triphonis Martyris; Passio Sancte Agathe Virginis et Martyris; Alcuin, Vita Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Haiminus of Saint-Vaast, Miracula Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Baudemundus, Vita Sancti Amandi Traiectensis Episcopi; Vita Sancti Ansberti episcopi; Vita Sancte Austroberte Virginis; Vita Sancte Euphrasie Virginis; Passio Sancti Valentini Martyris; Pa...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains six parts (ff. 2-7; ff. 8-173; ff. 174-233; ff. 234-254; f. 255; ff. 256-269) that were produced at separate times in England. The largest part of the manuscript (ff. 8-173) contains a Passionary or Legendary (featuring the lives of saints for liturgical read...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century - 4th quarter of the 14th century