Acts of the Privy Council, 1389–1421 (all originals), much of it relating to the rebellion in Wales led by Owain Glyn Dŵr (d. c. 1416) and the expedition to France, 1415, and including the correspondence of King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) and King Henry V of England (1413–1422: also as Henry, Prince of Wales)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
Collections of Sir Robert Cotton relating to the revenues of Crown
Scope & Content:
Codex chartac. membranulis quibusdam insertis, in folio; folior. 445. A collection of various Papers, chiefly relating to the revenue of the Crown, made by sir Robert Cotton, for his Majesty's service, in time (as is expressed in the title) of extremity. 1. An answer to such motives as were of...
Collections relating to the precedence of England, France and Spain, including Robert Wingfield, Nobilissima disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici, habita ab utriusque oratoribus et legatis in concilio Constantiensi (Louvain: Theodoricus Martinus, 1517) (ff. 43-68: printed text), and Iacob Valdesio, De dignitate regum regnorumque Hispaniae, et honoratiori loco eis, seu eorum legatis a conciliis, ac Romana sede iure debito (Granada: Ferdinand Diaz a Montoya,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Contents: ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle entitled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’. f. 7v: computistical tables. Decoration: Highlighting in red.
Battle Chronicle ('Short Chronicle'); Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli ('Long Chronicle')
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Contents: ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle’, beginning: ‘Quoniam de situ et institucione loci nostri ecclesie scilicet beati Martini de Bello aliquanta iam memorie commendata ad posterorum monimentum nobis in promptu habentur’, ending: ‘Pro mortuis, abbas nichil cum al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Contents: ff. 131r-142r: An untitled Chronicle to AD 1292, partially illegible, beginning: ‘in Vallia Iuor filius Tad’ Walad’ regnavit super Wallenses xlix annis’. ff. 142r-144r: An entitled Summary of the Brut, beginning: ‘[B]rutus entra la terre que ore est apele Engelterre’, and ending: ‘il...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century