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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D I, ff 2–202
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Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-25r: Matthew Paris, Vita Offarum. ff. 25v-26v: Matthew Paris, a part of the Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani, begins: 'Cum Danorum rabies in Anglia feralius grassaretur', ends: 'litteris minime commendatur'. ff. 27r-29v: Translation of the relics St Alban. ff. 30r-69r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century-2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A Parchment codex, 202 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II
Title:: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, John of Oxnead Chronicle, Chronicle of Battle Abbey, miscellaneous historical and heraldic texts, Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones, Jean Froissart, Chroniques.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including: f. 1v: Cottonian list of contents; ff. 2r–214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory to 1377; ff 215r–216v: Annalistic chronicle to1089 (imperfect); ff. 217r–v: List of donations to Holme St Benets Priory, imperfect f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c.1100-c.1650
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, f 314
Title:: Drawing of a church
Scope & Content:: f. 314r: Added drawing of an unidentified church with the roof shaded in light blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 2–214
Title:: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory or Chronicon Roffense to 1307, with a continuation in a later hand to 1377 (ff. 204r-214r), including a list of the rulers of the eight kingdoms of England (f. 80v). It is a version of the Flores Historiarum (Flower of Histories), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 215–216
Title:: Annalistic chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 215r-216v: Annalistic chronicle to 1089 (imperfect). Decoration: Dates in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 217–237
Title:: Donations to Holme St Benet's Abbey; John of Oxnead Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 217r-v: A list of donations to Holme St Benet's Abbey (imperfect); ff. 218r-237r: John of Oxnead (d. after 1292), Chronicle. Decoration: Paraphs in red or blue. Dates and rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 238–241
Title:: Chronicle of Battle Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 238v–241r: Chronicle of Battle Abbey to 1206; this version is known as the 'short chronicle'; it has a rubric, 'Incipiunt anni ab Incarnatione Domini' and consists of tables of between three and five columns with dates in Roman numerals from I to MCCXX. The first entry is 'VI Her...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero A. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 242–251
Title:: Miscellaneous historical texts, including De mirabilibus Anglie
Scope & Content:: Contents: Miscellaneous historical texts, including: ff. 242v-243v: List of English monarchs from Aethelbert to Edward I in Anglo-Norman French; f. 243v: A brief list of Scottish monarchs; f. 244r: Genealogy of Aethelwulf; ff. 245v-246v: De mirabilibus Anglie; ff. 247r-248r: A list of Eng...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D II, ff 252–265
Title:: Heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:: Contents: A heraldic miscellany, including: ff. 252r–254r: La livre de la ffoundacion et ordonnance de l’ordre et compaignie de la Jartier (Order of the Garter); ff. 254v–256v: Le livre de la creacion et foundacion des heraulx; ff. 262v-265v: A text on vices and virtues in French, with the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero D. ii.

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