Libellus quorundam insignium operum beati Æthelwoldi episcopi
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ff. 2r–27v: Libellus quorundam insignium operum beati Æthelwoldi episcopi. Account of Æthelwold’s refoundation of Ely abbey and of the properties he granted to it. ‘Incipit prologus libelli quorundam insignium operum beati æðelwoldi episcopi. Cum preteritarum notitia rerum ignorantię tenebris qu...
ff. 61r–75r: Arbitrium between John Fordham, bishop of Ely (1388–1425), and the prior and convent of Ely, 1417; ff. 76r–98v: Names of the tenants of Ely Cathedral Priory; ff 99v–102v: Charter of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471), dated 1417 and c. 1438 (f. 102r–v).
ff. 104r–121v: Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica, excerpts from book 7, ‘Que sequntur de uita et gestis gloriosi Guillelmi ducis normannorum ac victorissimi regis anglorum extracta fuerunt de quodam libro antiquo monasterii sancte stepgani de cadomo cuius monasterii fundator quondam extitit...
Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France in Paris
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Contents: ff. 3r-15v: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France (1514–15) in Paris, 6 November 1514; the pageants took place after the marriage of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) to Louis XII of France. Poem on Anne of Brittany, queen of France (d. 1514) on an added paper le...
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
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The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo, translated by Manfred of Sicily.
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Contents: ff. 24r-27r: Robert Kilwardby, De Ortu Scientiarum (On the rise of the sciences), imperfect. ff. 27v-30r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo (On the death of Aristotle, or the apple), translated by Manfred of Sicily. f. 30v: table of contents in a modern hand.
Cosmographia (Comosgraphy of Aethicus Ister), with Latin and Old English glosses.
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The Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister) was written in the first part of the 8th century, perhaps at Salzburg. The work purports to be an abbreviation by St Jerome (d. 420) of a cosmography made by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. Aethicus relates his travels to islands in the Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century