Ely Chronicle, AD 1–1156 (2r–7v); Liber Eliensis, book i (Historia sancte Etheldrede uirginis) (8r–32r: BHL 2634); De secunda translatione sancte Etheldrede uirginis (32v–36r: BHL 2637); Liber miraculorum uirginis Etheldrede (36r–75r: BHL 2638); Liber Eliensis, book ii (75r–95r)
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites; transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, including maps by Laurence Nowell; Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII; treatises on heraldry
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises four separate manuscripts, made at various times and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631). (1) ff. 2–36: a collection of treatises on English royal coronation and funeral rites and related subjects, made in England in the 4th quarter of the 15th century. (2) ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Treatise on the coronation of King Richard II of England (1377–1399) (2r–15r); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (15v–22r); treatise on the offices of marshal and constable (23r–32r); muster of King Richard II’s expedition to Scotland, 1385 (32r–33r: Dean 61); account of the Scottish expedition of King Edward I of England (1272–1307), 1296 (33r–35r: Dean 59)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (2r–22r); Latin and Anglo-Norman French (23r–32r); Anglo-Norman French (32r–35r)
Transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, much of it in the hand of Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), including a memorandum on the Bewcastle Cross (37r); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D- and E-texts (38r–57r); Irish chronicle (‘Grace’s Annals’), AD 948–1536 (59r–88r); genealogies of Irish families (91r–92v); An abbreuiate of the getting of Ireland and of the decaye of the same, interspersed with maps of Ireland and Scotland (93r–107r); maps of England with Anglo-Saxon place-names (110...
Treatise on heraldry (229r–235v); statutes of the Order of the Garter (236r–243r); treatise on the Order of the Bath (243r–247r); table of contents (247v–248r); (?)carol for victory in France, 1492 (248v: Boffey 306.8)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Anglo-Norman French; Latin (247v–248r); Middle English (248v) Dated: 2nd half of the 15th century; last quarter of the 16th century or 1st quarter of the 17th century (247v–248r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
