Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1331)). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 182v: verses on the death of Edward VI, king of England (r. 1553-1558) in a late 16th-century hand, followed ...
This part of the manuscript contains a number of scientific and medical texts. Among them, there is the earliest surviving copy of the De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions) by Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC) and the only extant copy of the chapter entitled...
Collection of poems, including Ywaine and Gawain (4r-25r: Boffey 259); The Seuyn Sages of Rome (25v-48v: Boffey 3187); The Gospel of Nicodemus (57v-66v: Boffey 512); The Pricke of Conscience (76r-113r: Boffey 3428); and works by Laurence Minot
Records and papers concerning England and France, 1580–1589
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Codex chartaceus in folio, constans foliis 427. [See Rymer XVI. 20-27, 29, 35, 39, 40.] 1. Q. Elizabeth's instructions to sir Hen. Cobham, her ambassador to the French king. Greenwich, Oct. 10, 1580. 1. 2. Henry K. of Navarre (afterwards H. IV. of France) to Ld. Burleigh; complaining of many e...
Verses on the kings of England to Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (2r–v: Boffey 3632); De tribus regibus Coloniensibus (3r–28v); Brut chronicle to King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) (29r–148r), including a song of victory over the Scots, 1296 (83r: Boffey 3558.5), a song after the battle of Bannockburn, 1314 (88r: Boffey 2039.3), and John Page, Siege of Rouen (140r–143v: Boffey 979)
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Languages: Middle English (2r–v, 29r–148r); Latin (3r–28v)