This folio was removed from Cotton MS Claudius D VI, a manuscript including Matthew Paris's Abbreuiatio chronicorum. This is folio 12 of that manuscript, comprising the end of the genealogy of the kings of England (f. 12r) and a map of Britain (f. 12v), said to have been drawn by Matthew Paris h...
ff. 6r–9v: Drawings of the kings of Britain and England to Henry III (1216–1272). ff. 10v–12r: Chronicle of English history. [f. 12v: Map of Great Britain: bound separately, Cotton MS Claudius D. vi/1.] ff. 13r–98v: Matthew Paris, Abbreuiatio chronicorum, 1000–1255. Decoration: Drawings by ...
ff. 101r–118v: William Rishanger, Narratio de duobus bellis apud Lewes et Euesham. ff. 119r–137v: William Rishanger, Opus chronicorum, 1259–1297. ff. 138r–v: William Rishanger, De controuersia habita super electione regni Scotie. ff. 139r–164v: William Rishanger, Annales regni Scotie. ff. 16...
ff. 218r–219r: Liturgical calendar, with names of saints associated with St Albans. Decoration: Multicoloured vertical borders in style of other St Albans sections of manuscript. Feasts marked in blue and red. Enlarged headings to each month alternating betwen blue and red, with penwork decora...
Contents:f. 1: early modern paper endleaf, containing on f. 1r a list of contents in the hand of Richard James (d. 1638).f. 2: modern paper endleaf, containing on f. 2v a pasted printed ownership label of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617): 'Henry Savill ... oweth thys booke ...'.ff. 3r–4v: an unide...
Historical miscellany, including excerpts from the historical writings of Henry of Huntingdon, Ralph Niger and others (5r–23v); Chronicle of Lanercost Priory, 60 BC–AD 1346 (25r–245v), incorporating the couplet ‘Wille Gris, Wylle Gris’ (184v: Boffey 4174)
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Language(s): Latin; Middle English (184v); Anglo-Norman French (240v–241r, 243r–v) Dated: middle of the 14th century; middle of the 15th century (131r, 143r)
