Contents: ff. 2r-61v: The Hagnaby Chronicle. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, blue or green, some with penwork decoration. Numerous small initials in red and blue. Highlighting in red.
Pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, comte de Saint-Po, Marguerite de Baux and Louis de Luxembourg, comte de Saint-Po
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Contents: ff. 62r-71v: The pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b.1390, d. 1433), Marguerite de Baux (b. 1394, d. 1469), and Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol (b. 1418, d. 1475). Decoration: 1 full-page coat of arms of the counts of Luxembourg; 2 sets of 12 heraldic shi...
Contents: ff. 72r-79r: The Dover Chronicle (from Creation to 1189). The chronicle is written only on the rectos, the versos are left blank. Decoration: 1 large decorated initial in brown ink with foliate elements (f. 72r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Contents: ff. 80r-82v: Vitae Abbatum Croylandiae (History of the Abbots of Crowland Abbey). Decoration: Rubrics in red. Spaces left blank for initials.
Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; De Genealogia Regum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains the Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (The Life of Saint Edward the Confessor) and the De Genealogia Regum Anglorum (On the Genealogy of the Kings of England) by the English historian Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167). The rest of the initial manuscrip...
A Franciscan chronicle known as the 'Kilkenny Chronicle'
Scope & Content:
This part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI contains the 14th-century 'Kilkenny Chronicle', also known as the the 'Chronicle of Castledermot' and the Annales Hibernie ab anno 1264 ad annum 1330 (Annals of Ireland from 1264 to 1330 AD). The folios were originally in roll form. The chronicle text is inc...
This part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI contains an anonymous verse chronicle, originally in roll form. Contents: ff. 139r-144r: An anonymous verse-chronicle, with a later addition of a memorandum of the chronicle on ff. 139r-144r in a 17th-century hand. ff. 138r, 139v, 140v, 141v, 142v, 143v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
A theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
Scope & Content:
Other portions of the same medieval manuscript are now Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff. 1, 205, Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 157–164, Cotton MS Cleopatra E I, ff. 184, 188, 312, and Cotton MS Cleopatra E IV, ff. 1, 475 Contents: ff. 145r-158v: A theological treatise concerning vices and virtues...