Contents: ff. 2r-214r: Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory or Chronicon Roffense to 1307, with a continuation in a later hand to 1377 (ff. 204r-214r), including a list of the rulers of the eight kingdoms of England (f. 80v). It is a version of the Flores Historiarum (Flower of Histories), ...
Donations to Holme St Benet's Abbey; John of Oxnead Chronicle
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Contents: f. 217r-v: A list of donations to Holme St Benet's Abbey (imperfect); ff. 218r-237r: John of Oxnead (d. after 1292), Chronicle. Decoration: Paraphs in red or blue. Dates and rubrics in red.
Contents: ff. 238v–241r: Chronicle of Battle Abbey to 1206; this version is known as the 'short chronicle'; it has a rubric, 'Incipiunt anni ab Incarnatione Domini' and consists of tables of between three and five columns with dates in Roman numerals from I to MCCXX. The first entry is 'VI Her...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Miscellaneous historical texts, including De mirabilibus Anglie
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Contents: Miscellaneous historical texts, including: ff. 242v-243v: List of English monarchs from Aethelbert to Edward I in Anglo-Norman French; f. 243v: A brief list of Scottish monarchs; f. 244r: Genealogy of Aethelwulf; ff. 245v-246v: De mirabilibus Anglie; ff. 247r-248r: A list of Eng...
Contents: A heraldic miscellany, including: ff. 252r–254r: La livre de la ffoundacion et ordonnance de l’ordre et compaignie de la Jartier (Order of the Garter); ff. 254v–256v: Le livre de la creacion et foundacion des heraulx; ff. 262v-265v: A text on vices and virtues in French, with the...
Contents: ff. 266r-276r: Robert Grosseteste, Constitutiones synodales or Decreta synodalia (a letter sent to the clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln in c. 1238). Decoration: Two initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red.
Continuation of Walter of Guisborough's chronicle or the 'Continuation of Hemingburgh'
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Contents: ff. 277r-296v: Chronicle from 1327 to 1346, a sixteenth-century transcript of the text known as the continuation of the Walter of Guisborough's chronicle or the 'Continuation of Hemingburgh'. The original chronicle, by Walter, an Augustinian canon of the priory of Guisborough, ended ...