Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
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This manuscript is a compilation, containing parts of three separate Pontificals copied between late 10th or early 11th and 12th centuries (two of which include coronation ordos); some records pertaining to Christ Church which were originally copied into the Gospel-book in Cotton Tiberius A II be...
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1590
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 336. [See Rymer, vol. xvi, 33, 31, 34, 39, 42, 44, 50, 52, 54, 55, 57, 61, 63-66, 72-79, 82.] 1. "The effect of a motion made to me (Bodley?) by a principal person of the States," concerning the affairs between England and the United Provinces. 1590....
Records (all originals) concerning England and France, temp. Henry IV (1399–1413)
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Fragments of divers papers relating to the affairs of the English dominions in France; chiefly in French, and of the time of Henry IV. K. of England. This MS. consisted originally of 150 leaves, of which only 70 are now left, and these so much burnt and defaced as hardly to be of any use.
Bequest by Thurstan to Christ Church of land at Wimbish, Essex; 1042 × 1043 (Sawyer, no. 1530). Upper portion of a tripartite chirograph, with ‘CYROGRAPHVM’ written along the lower edge. Endorsed in a 12th-century hand or hands, ‘Þurstan dedit ƿimbisc ecclesiae cristi id est conuentae’, ‘.angl...
This composite manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 3-175: A collection of historical texts including the Historia regum Brittaniae and Historia Normannorum (4th quarter of the 12th century); ff. 176-344: Historical and scientific texts, including the Polychro...
Miscellaneous fragments, including Aelred of Rievaulx, Uita sancti Edwardi confessoris (bundle I(3): BHL 2423); Osbern of Canterbury, Translatio sancti Ælphegi archiepiscopi (bundle I(4): BHL 2519); Ivo of Chartres, Epistola xxxv (bundle I(7)); Roger de Stavenge, Li Charboclois d’armes (Du conquest de la Terre Sainte) (bundle I(9)); Honorius of Autun (Augustodunensis), Elucidarius (bundle I(11)); Regula sancti Benedicti (bundle I(15)); Bede, Uita sancti Cuthberti episcopi (bundle I(16)): BHL ...
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (bundle I(9))