Contents: ff. 1r-242r: An Alphabet of Arms with blazons of English coats of arms in French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements and coats of arms drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Contents: ff. 2v-157r: Explication des actes des apôtres. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Explication des actes des apostres en forme de paraphrase'; added in a 16th-century hand. f. 1v: A summary description of the manuscript; added in the (?) 17t...
Contents: ff. 1r–6v: Calendar. ff. 7r–35v: Capitulatio statutorum, listing the titles of the statutes in the collection. ff. 37r–114v: Texts of the statutes, beginning with Magna Carta, in Latin and Anglo-Norman French (ends imperfectly). Decoration: Initials with penwork decoration in red ...
f. 1r–v: List of capitula to Peter the Chanter (contemporary addition). ff. 2r–115r: Peter the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum, textus prior. With extensive corrections. f. 115r–v: Notes on confession added in a contemporary hand, with many quotations from Peter Lombard: ‘Hec sunt de quibus inquis...
Contents: ff. 12r-193v: The Pauline Epistles with glossa ordinaria, preceded by a table of pericope readings (ff. 1v-4v) and an introduction (ff. 5r-11v). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: lists of number of chapters of each book of the Old Testament and the Pauline Epistles; w...
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: An English treatise on law, with the title ‘Analecta seu miscellanea σχεδίασματα de studio juris Caesarei et pontificii, amico Juris Candidato transmissa'.
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Nicholas Upton (b. 1400, d. 1457), cleric, lawyer, and writer on warfare and heraldry, De Studio Militari [Libellus de Officio Militari], Books I-III [Book IV is missing]; entitled: ‘Liber primus de Coloribus’ (f. 1r); ‘Liber Secundus de Regulis et Signis in Armis depicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century