Letter of the Patriarch of Alexandria concerning the schism in the Church of Rome (256r–268v); the Assize of Clarendon, AD 1166, and related documents (269r–277v); description of Britain (278r–279r)
This folio, copied in the 1st quarter of the 12th century, contains papal letters. Like ff. 2r-7v, it was excised from Cotton Tiberius A II, a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church by the mid-10th century. It includes: f. 9*r: the end of a letter, which mentions 'frater Bertualdus Cantua...
Contents: ff. 345r-347r: An account of the foundation of the abbey of St John, Colchester. Decoration: A tinted drawing of the abbey with a large roundel above containing a shield of arms surrounded by the inscription, 'Eudo filius Huberti de Rya fundator Monasteri' Colecestrensis' (f. 345r)....