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41. Royal MS 12 C XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XIX
Title:
Bestiary with theological texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200-c 1210
Extent:

1 volume

42. Royal MS 13 B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII
Title:
Anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes an anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world, relating to Ireland and Wales. Contents: 1. Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica) (ff. 1r-34v); 2. Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica (ff. 34v-74r); 3. Gerald of Wales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1196-1223
Extent:

147 folios.

43. Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 1r-34v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 1r-34v
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica)
Scope & Content:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica); rubric: 'Introitus in recitationem', incipit: 'Consideranti mihi quam brevis' (f. 1r); the dedication to Henry II, incipit: 'Placuit excellentie uestre' (f. 3v); the main work (here entitled 'Hybernica historia'), incipit: 'Hybernia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1196-1223
Extent:
34 folios.

44. Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 34v-74r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 34v-74r
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica
Scope & Content:
Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica; rubric: 'Introitus in recitationem', incipit (f. 34v): 'Quoniam de insule Hybernice situ' ; the dedication to Richard, Count of Poitou, incipit (f. 37r): 'A multis requisitus et multotiens'; the main work (entitled 'Liber vaticinalis hystorie . . . super Hy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1196-1223
Extent:
41 folios.

45. Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 74v-100v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 74v-100v
Title:
Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae
Scope & Content:
Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae; rubric: 'Incipit itinerarium Girardi Kambrensis, et tam Kambrie quam Britannie descriptio'; incipit: 'Quoniam ca que laudabili devotione', without the preface which appears in some other manuscripts. Edited by Dimock 1867 (pp. 9-152) from this manuscript, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1196-1223
Extent:
27 folios.

46. Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 112v-116v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 112v-116v
Title:
Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts); rubric (f. 112v): 'Exceptiones de cronicis Eusebii'; incipit (f. 113r): 'In castello Iudee Emaus natus estpuer'. Includes miscellaneous anecdotes with several relating to French and English history. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1196-1223
Extent:
5 folios.

47. Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 117r-146v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 117r-146v
Title:
Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Summarium and Anticlaudianus
Scope & Content:
Two works by Alain de Lille, Summarium and Anticlaudianus (a poem in Latin hexameter)in 9 'distinctiones'. Prologue (in prose), incipit: 'Cum fulminis impetus vires suas'; followed by the Summarium, incipit (f. 117v): 'Quia in hoc opere agitur'. Verse prologue to the Anticlaudianus, incipit: 'Au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
30 folios.

48. Royal MS 14 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII
Title:
Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two autograph copies of historical works by Matthew Paris with prefatory material: 1. Maps and other prefatory material including a diagram of Winds, the Itinerary from London to the Holy Land, Easter tables and a calendar (ff. 1v-8r); 2. Matthew Paris, Historia Angloru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1259
Extent:

232 folios.

49. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r
Title:
Maps and other prefatory material
Scope & Content:
Prefatory material including: 1. Diagram of Winds (f. 1v); similar to one in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 16. f. 1v; 2. Itinerary from London to the Holy Land with images of towns, their names, and descriptions of places (ff. 2r-5r); 3. Map of Britain, with indications of a great hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1259
Extent:
8 folios.

50. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v
Title:
Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:
The only complete copy of the Historia Anglorum, a history of England covering the years 1070-1253, probably composed and written by Matthew Paris in the period between 1250-1255 (ff. 10r-156v). Prologue incipit: 'De chronographia, id est temporum descripcione'; text incipit: 'Anno dominice inca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1259
Extent:
148 folios.