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
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note of the age of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (Old English paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis (incomplete); hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others
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These folios contain various Biblical texts, notes, and hymns in Latin and Old English. Apart from the additions on ff. 76v–77v, most of this text may have been copied between the middle of the 10th century to 2nd half of the 10th century. These folios include: ff. 2r–37v: Book of Proverbs (Par...
These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century