RULES for the officers of the forest [of Waltham, co. Essex] n. d. Probably an imperfect draft. The persons entitled to receive deer (number left blank) include the Abbot of Waltharn and Abbess of Barking. Paper roll. 3 ft. 6 in. x 121/2 in. Before 1539. Not in the old catalogues.
'CLAVSRVRA Parci de Westbury': list of lands and persons in Wells Forum, Kingsbury, Chew, and Winterstoke hundreds and Wedmore parish, co. Som., liable for the repair of the hedge and ditch or wall of Westbury Park, n. d. Paper roll. 4 ft. 11/2 in. x 121/2 in. Early XVI cent. Not in the old cat...
HISTORICAL WORKS of William Rishanger, Martinus Polonus, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, &c., in Latin, viz.: 1. 'De iure quod habet Rex Anglie ad Scociam.' Beg. 'Sanctissimo in Christo patri domino B.' This is properly part of the Annales Angliae et Scotiae, attributed to Rishanger, contained in...
ROGER OF HOVEDEN, Chronica: vol. i, containing the history of England from 732, where Bede ends, to 1180. Beg. 'In principio huius operis, gencalogiam'. The first leaf is supplied by a 16th cent. hand. The second volume, from 1181 to 1201, is in the Bodleian Library (Laud MS. 582). See Stubbs, C...
WORKS of Hethoum, Peter of Blois, Hildebert of Le Mans, &c., in Latin, viz.: 1. Hayto [al. Hethoum], Flos Historiarum (cf 13 C. XII, art. 3). The title here is the same. f. 1. 2. Iohannes de Rupella, De viribus anime. No title. Beg. 'Si ignoras te, O pulcherrima mulicrum'. Colophon, 'Hec ...
PORTOLANO of seven double-page maps, viz.:-(i) British Isles and west coast of Europe, from north Denmark to Oporto; (2) west Mediterranean, including Sardinia and Corsica, and Atlantic coast from Bordeaux to Cape Bojador, including Madeira and the, Canary Isles; (3) east Mediterranean, from Sar...
'FLORES HISTORIARVM': the abridgement of the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, extending from the Creation to 1259, Prepared at St. Albans Abbey and continued there to 1265, and further continued at Westminster to 1326. Attributed by its first editor Archbishop Parker (1567), on the evidence of ...
1. HEGESIPPUS, De excidio Iudeorum, in five books. Title 'In hoc corpore continentur Egesippi historiae libri numero quinque cum Dei adiutorio'. Cf. 13 C. X, art. 2. Without subscription. f. 1. Art. 2 is added in a later hand (12th cent.?) as a fly-leaf. 2. An exhortation to study, in 66 Latin...
HISTORIA HIEROSOLIMITANA, by William, Archbishop of Tyre (circ. 1174-1190), with continuation, &c., viz.: 1. Brief deseription of the Holy Land, in Latin. Cap. i is entitied 'De situ terre Ierosolimitanc et habitatoribus eius', and beg. 'Terra Ierosolimitana in centro mundi posita est'. Pri...