Hildebert of Lavardin (Le Mans), Carmina (2r–34r), including Uita metrica sancte Marie Aegyptiace (2v–8v: BHL 5419; Walther 18159); unidentified scientific text (34v: incomplete)
Scope & Content:
Dated: 2nd half of the 12th century (2r–34r); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century (34v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Prayers (166r–167v); Hildebert of Lavardin (Le Mans), Carmina lxxi (167v–168v: Walther 834); Bede, Uersus de die iudicii (168v–171v: Walther 9456); Eadmer of Canterbury, De beatitudine celestis patrie (171v–172v: incomplete)
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)