Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England, Brutus to AD 1306 (6r–52v, 58r–131r, 132r–170v: Dean 66, Boffey 310, 313, 814, 841, 2686, 2754, 3352, imperfect); The Testament of the Buck (131v)
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French, with occasional passages in Middle English (6r–52v, 58r–131r, 132r–170v); English (131v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 14th century (6r–52v, 58r–131r, 132r–170v); 3rd quarter of the 16th century (131v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England, AD 1307 (171r–172r: Dean 66); Nicholas Bozon, Tretys de la Passion (172r–174v: Dean 688); Nicholas Bozon (attributed), Lament of the Virgin (174v–177r: Dean 956); The Prophecies of Merlin (177v–179r: Dean 18); Award of Norham (179r–180r); ballad on the Scottish wars (180r–181v: Boffey 379); verse account of the Battle of Mansourah, 1250 (181v–187r: Dean 69); Prose Lancelot (187v: Dean 168, imperfect)
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (171r–180r, 181v–187v); Latin (179r); Middle English (180r–181v) Dated: 1st half of the 14th century (171r–187r); 2nd half of the 14th century (187v)
A calendar, computistical texts and tables, Expositio Hymnorum, canticles and poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two discrete parts, which were joined together in the medieval period. One part (ff. 2r–17v), copied in the first half of the 11th century, includes a calendar and computistical material. The second part (ff. 18r–80v) contains an early version of the Expositio Hymnorum (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum; verse miscellanies; Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba, etc
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This manuscript contains 9 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) ff. 3–54: Cronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum, to Pope Urban IV (1261–64) (ff. 3r–14r); Bonizo of Sutri, Cronica Romanorum pontificum (ff. 15r–30r); Cronica regum Mannie et insularum, AD 1000–...