Register of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman French Dated: 1st quarter of the 14th century to last quarter of the 15th century; 1st half of the 16th century (ff. 14–15)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Bull of Pope Julius II (1503–1513) addressed to King Henry VII of England (1485–1509) on the expedition against the Turks (‘Littere tue serennitas’), 1507 (212r–215r); reply of Henry VII addressed to Julius II, 1507 (215v–220r)
These folios contain an illustrated copy of Prudentius's Psychomachia made between the late 10th and early 11th century, with Old English titles and glosses added in the early 11th century. Contents: ff. 4r-37r: Prudentius, Psychomachia, with Old English titles and glosses added in the early ...
Collection of canon law texts, including the Collectio Dacheriana; canons of the council of Trosly, 909; Isidore Mercator (Pseudo-Isidore of Seville), Epistula ad Leudefredum Episcopum; Isidore Mercator, Collectio Canonum; Quadripartitus; St Gregory the Great, Libellus Responsionum and Registrum (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, De Coniugiis Adulterinis, book ii; and Fulbert of Chartres, Epistolae
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These folios contain a collection of canon law, possibly copied in the region that is now France in the 2nd half of the 12th century. Contents: ff. 38r-39v: Modus Tenendi Synodos in Anglia Primaevis Temporibus, including prayers for a synod beginning 'Adsumus sancte spiritus adsumus peccati q...