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Royal MS 13 A XI
- Record Id:
- 040-002106823
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0003d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056059709.0x000001
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- Royal MS 13 A XI
- Title:
- Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
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Contents:
ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v).
ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days).
ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a table of moveable feasts (f. 13r) and an orologium diagram.
ff. 14r-28r: Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (ff. 14r-22r) followed by Bede, De temporibus (ff. 22r-28r).
ff. 28r-29v: Epistola Petosiris de sphera vite et mortis (Sphere of the life and death), beginning: 'Pitoris (sic) Necnepso regi salutem. De his que a me ad humane vite' followed by tables (ff. 28v-29r) and two circular diagrams (f. 29v).
ff. 30v-103v: Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione preceded by a prologue (ff. 30v-31r).
ff. 104r- 105r: Pseudo-Hyginus, Excerptum de astrologia (an abstract of the Aratus Latinus).
ff. 105v-113r: Abbo of Fleury, Excerptio Abbonis ex Hygino de figuratione signorum.
ff. 113r-115v: Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circule et sphere, beginning: 'Studiosis astrologie primo sciendum est' followed by the Tractatus 'Denique luna', beginning: 'Denique luna totius Zodiaci signa' (ff. 114r-115v).
ff. 115v-118r: Anonymous, De xii signis cur figurantur sic de ariete.
ff. 118v-119v: Anonymous on the measurements of the celestes circuli, beginning: 'Spera fiat omni parte equalis'.
ff. 120r-126v: Dungal of Bobbio, Epistola ad Carolum Magnum de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810, Dungal's letter to Charlemagne about the two solar eclipses that occurred in 810.
ff. 126v-127r: Extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, book 3, De eclipse, chapters 58 and 59, beginning: 'Eclipsis solis est quotiens luna trigesima ad eandem lineam'.
ff. 127r-132r: Extracts on astronomical subjects from Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis.
ff. 132v-139v: Anonymous, treatise on the method of computation with examples, beginning: 'Si vis scire quot sint anni ab incarnatione'.
ff. 139v-140v: Anonymous, Versus Dionisii de annis Domini.
ff. 140v-141v: Anonymous, De notis antiquioribus que notant numerus, beginning with an extract from Rabanus Maurus, De computo, chapter 6: 'Tres digiti in sinistra manu, id est auricularis'.
ff. 141v-143r : Anonymous, De mensuris et ponderibus, beginning: 'Mensurarum in liquidis coclear est pars minima'.
f. 145r: A Versus de ciclo Pasche magno, beginning. 'Compotus hic alphabeto confectus habetur'.
f. 145v: A short text on the moveable feasts followed by a diagram on the epacts allowing to find the date in the lunar calendar from the solar calendar; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter.
ff. 146r-148v: Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione, imperfect at the beginning and at the end, beginning: '[equi]noctialem sui cursus locum in signifero circulo', ending: 'aut nona kalendarum aprilium die non fuisse, aut ante equinoctium fuisse confirmet. Explicit Epistola Bede presbiteri ad Vicredam (sic) presbiterum '.
ff. 149r-v: Anonymous, verses on the seven liberal arts. The last verses have been copied by two different 15th-century hands (f. 149v).
Decoration:
One explanatory drawing of methods of calculation of the Computus (f. 33v). Series of ink drawings of the constellations slightly tinted (ff. 105r-112v).
Ten diagrams and tables in brown and red ink (ff. 14r, 29v, 114v, 118r, 123r, 127v, 143v, 144r, 144v, 145v). Nine large interlace initials in colours or in outline drawing, some with zoomorphic motifs (ff. 1r, 1v, 14v, 22r, 30v, 32v, 104r, 105r, 120r). Initials in red with penwork decoration in green, or in green with penwork decoration in red. Line-filler in red and/or green. Marginal drawings in ink of dragons, some attached to glosses (ff. 5v, 8r, 9r, 9v, 10v, 15v, 16r, 23v, 24v, 26v, 117v), of the moon and sun (f. 55v), the island Thule (f. 61v), human, animals heads and zodiac signs (ff. 14r, 36r, 43r, 43v, 47r, 49v, 59v, 72v, 81v, 107v, 110r, 111r, 112r, 112v), and initials (e.g., ff. 66v, 69v, 79v). Glosses in green and red frames (e.g., f. 39v)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
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- 032-002105724
040-002106823 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 13 A XI : Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy - Hierarchy:
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A parchment codex
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- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056059709.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 11th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm (text space: 190 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 150 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 150 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather with the royal arms and a date of 1757.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Central France or England.
Provenance:
Added leaf (trimmed) containing a fragment of a register of letters [Close Roll ?] of Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, for March 1301 beginning on the verso and including: letters to the sheriffs of Oxford and Worcester concerning provisions for the royal household for the king's coming to Woodstock [and Evesham], written at Medborne, 8 March; a letter to the bishop of Lincoln, repeating a former request sent by Hue de Val-Laumosnier, signed at Ockham, 8 March; a letter to John de Tingewyke, keeper of Whittlewood forest, written at Medborne, 9 March; a letter to Gautier de Beauchamp, 'seneschal', perhaps to be identified with Guy de Beauchamp, 10th earl of Warwick (b. c. 1272, d. 1315), written at Harrington, 9 March; a letter to the 'Official deuerwike' [York], in favour of his chaplain Gilbert de Grim[esby] recommending him for the 'chancerye a Bercleye' resigned by William de Hameltone [date cut away]; a letter asking to prepare a manor of Woodstock for the king, signed on Friday, 17 March; a letter to Alice [widow of John] de Montfort concerning her case against the executors of William de Beauchamp, 9th earl of Warwick (b. 1238, d. 1298), written at Northampton, 10 March; a letter to the sheriff of Leicester concerning payments for goods supplied for the royal household, written at Northampton, 10 March; a letter to Edward his son, requesting him to give the church of Bangor in the diocese of Chester, vacant by the death of [Da]vid de la Poele, to William de la Poele, written at Northampton, 10 March; a letter to all sheriffs, etc., in favour of Wautier (Walter) de Canterbury, 'vadlet de nostre botillerie', ordered to procure wine and beer for the royal household [date excised], 14th century (ff. 150r-150v).
Inscribed 'Ja. Bonin', 14th century (f. 145v).
Inscribed 'De libris J. de Longolio', 15th century (f. 149v).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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- Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 80-81.
A. van de Vyver, 'Les oeuvres inédites d'Abbon de Fleury', Revue Bénédictine, 2 (1937), 125-69 (p. 145).
Charles W. Jones, 'Manuscripts of Bede's De natura rerum', Isis, 127 (1937), 430-40 (p. 433).
Charles W. Jones, Bedae opera de temporibus, Mediaval Academy of America Publication, 41 (Cambridge Mass., 1943), p. 153.
Fritz Saxl and Rudolf Wittkower, British Art and the Mediterranean (London: Oxford University Press, 1948), p. 30.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, 4 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1953), III: Manuscripts in English Libraries, pp. 197-98, figs. 159, 174.
H. Bober, 'An Illustrated Medieval School Book of Bede's De Natura Rerum', Journal of the Walter Art Gallery, 19-20 (1956-57), 64-97 (p. 77).
Kyle M. Phillips Jr, 'Perseus and Andromeda', The American Journal of Archaeology, 72 (1968), 1-23 (p. 19, fig. 54).
Patrick McGurk, 'Computus Helperici: Its Transmission in England in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries', Medium Aevum, 43 (1974), 1-4 (p. 2).
John E. Murdoch, Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by I. B. Cohen (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984), no. 249.
Ron B. Thomson, 'Two Astronomical Tractates of Abbo of Fleury' in The Light of Nature. Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science presented to A. C. Crombie, ed. by J. D. North and J. J. Roche (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985), pp. 113-34.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 61 [exhibition catalogue].
Alison Stones, 'The Decoration and Illumination of the Codex Calixtinus at Santiago de Compostella', in The Codex Calixtinus and the Shrine of St James, ed. by John Williams and Alison Stones (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1992), pp. 137-67 (p. 149, n. 51).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 483
Michelle P. Brown, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London: British Library, 2003), p. 46.
Rembrandt Dutis, 'Celestial Transmissions: An Iconographical Classification of Constellation Cycles in Manuscripts (8th-15th Centuries)', in Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 59 (2005), 147-202 (pp. 162, n. 85, 192, pls 40d-e).
Roy Michael Liuzza, 'The Sphere of Life and Death: Time, Medicine and the Visual Imagination', in Latin Learning and English Lore, II: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard, Toronto Oldby English Series, 14 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 28-52, pp, 30, 34-35, 38-42, 48n.
L. S. Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics 900-1100: Study and Texts (Boston: Brill, 2007), pp. 272, 547.
Roy Michael Liuzza, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011), p. 73.
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 104 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.
- Names:
- Abbo, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey, c 945-1004,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117422910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9966678
Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Dungal of Bobbio, monk, scholar and poet, fl Early 9th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000382378308,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/264702019
Helperic of Auxerre, fl 9th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000002292191,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56964113
Isidore of Seville, Saint, Bishop of Seville, c 560-636,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122756296,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/803890
Pseudo-Hyginus,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000458234213,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100181375 - Subjects:
- Science
- Places:
- Central France
England
Northern France - Related Material:
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From George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 80-81:
'TREATISES on the Computus and kindred subjects, in prose and verse, in Latin, viz.:
1. Helperici liber de computo: a treatise on the calendar, by Helperic, monk of Grandval. Printed by Pez, Thesaurus Anecd. Noviss. 1721, ii, pt. ii, 183, and by Migne, Patr. Lat. cxxxvii. 17. The prefatory letter to Asper (see Sloane MS. 263, and Migne) is not included. Preface beg. 'Cum quibusdam e fratribus nostris adolescentioribus'; text (f. 1 b), 'Annus solaris, ut maiorum constat'. Colophon (f. 12 b), 'Explicit liber Alperici'. In the table of chapters (f. 1 b) capp. 25, 38 are omitted; and in the text the latter (the 'Epilogus') forms part of cap. 37. In cap. 23, 'Qualiter inueniantur anni ab incarn. Dom.', the calculation is for 1072, but the handwriting appears to be somewhat later. In Sloane MS. 263, it appears as 903; in 12 D. IV and 12 F. II, above, as 978; in Harley MS. 5325, as 1030; in Arundel MS. 356, as 1090; in Harley MS. 3199, as 1097; and in Cotton MS. Vesp. A. IX, as 1131. The date in the Sloane MS. seems to be the earliest known (cf. Hist. Litt. de la France, vi, p. 400). f. 1.
2. 'De diebus Egyptiis': 22 hexameters on the days on which it was dangerous to let blood, &c. Printed among the spurious works of Bede in Migne, xc. 955. Beg. 'Si tenebre Egiptus Graio sermone uocatur'. The last four lines, at the top of f. 13, are written as prose. They are followed by brief directions, beg. 'Caue multum ne in tribus diebus sanguinem minuas'. f. 12 b.
3. 'Incipit ciclus annalis'; followed by other brief chapters 'de horis mensium', and 'de singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus'; ending with a figure of an 'Orologium'. Beg. 'Ars ista apud Hebreos'. f. 13.
4. 'Incipiunt duo libelli Bede presbiteri de natura rerum et ratione temporum.' The 'liber primus' comprises the treatise De natura rerum (Migne, xc. 187). Beg. 'Operatio divina que secula'. It is followed (f. 22) by '[Liber] secundus, de temporibus, horis et momentis' (ib. 277). Beg. 'Tempora momentis, horis'. f. 14b.
5. 'Ratio d[e] egris': method of divining, by means of numbers arranged in a sphere, the fate of a sick man, a fugitive, a gladiator, &c., purporting to be a letter from 'Pitorisis [ed. Petosyris] Necnepso regi'. Beg. 'De his que a me ad humane uite cautelam'. At the end is a table formed on the letters of the Greek alphabet, followed by two spheres with the note 'Ratio spere Pitagori philosophi quam ad Polegium descripsit', &c. Printed among the spurious works of Bede, Migne, xc.
963, under the title 'De divinatione mortis et vitae'. f. 28.
6. Baeda de ratione temporum, with the heading 'Incipit prologus in libro de temporibus iiio', art. 4 above being regarded as libb. i and ii. Beg. 'De natura rerum et ratione temporum'. Printed ib. xc.
293. After the words 'solis cum bisexto' in cap. 54 (ib. 504) at the bottom of f. 79 b there is a lacuna, f. 80 beg. 'Diluuii tempora transeunt' in cap. 66. In the middle of cap. 1 a diagram is introduced showing the method of numeration by the fingers (f. 33 b). After this a leaf is missing containing 'Est et alterius ... ut caute rem' (ib. 297) and probably other diagrams. Colophon, 'Explicit liber Bede presbiteri de temporibus tertius'. f. 30 b.
7. 'Liber Arati de signis celestibus' (so colophon): a treatise, here attributed to Aratus, on the constellations, &c. (cf. 12 C. iv, art. 2), with drawings slightly tinted. The latter part, from 'Studiosis astrologie primo sciendum' (f. 13, l. 6), appears as a separate treatise in Harley MS. 2506, f. 30 b. Beg. 'Duo sunt vertices mundi quos appellant polos'. f. 104.
8. 'De xii signis, cur figurantur sic' : on the signs of the Zodiac. Beg. 'Regionem primam celi'. Cf. Harley MS. 2506, f. 33, where the article begins with a prayer, here omitted. f. 115 b.
9. On the measurement of 'celestes circuli', &c. Beg. 'Spera fiat omni parte equalis et rotunda'. f. 118.
10. Dungali reclusi epistola ad Carolum Magnum de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810. Printed by D'Achery, Spicilegium, x, p. 143, Migne, cv. 447, Ph. Jaffé, Monumenta Carolina, 1867, p. 396. Beg. (after the address), 'Audiui ergo, domine dilectissime, du Galus' (sic, for Dungalus). f. 120.
11. 'De eclipsi': lib. iii, capp. 58, 59, of the Etymologiae of S. Isidore of Seville, with slight variations (cf. Migne, lxxxii. 176). Beg. 'Eclipsis solis est quotiens luna'. f. 126 b.
12. Various extracts on astronomical subjects from the Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis of Macrobius. ff. 127-132.
13. Rules and arguments on questions connected with the Computus. Beg. (without heading), 'Si uis scire quoti sint anni ab incarnatione Domini'. In the 'Argumentum qualiter per annos ab incarn. Dom. inuenias bisextum' (f. 132 b) the 'presens annus' is given as 793, and in another chapter (f. 134 b) it appears as 776. Cf. the 'Argumenta Paschalia' printed among the works of Dionysius Exiguus in Migne, lxvii. 497. The greater part of f. 137 b is left blank, but the text on f. 138 follows on without a break. f. 132 b.
14. 'Versus Dionisii [Exigui ?] de annis dom. nostri Iesu Christi.' Printed among the doubtful works of Bede, Migne, xciv. 637. Some of the triplets are here wanting. Beg. 'Anni Domini notantur in presenti linea'. f. 139 b.
15. 'De notis antiquioribus que notant numeros.' Beg. 'Tres digiti in sinistra manu. I. auricularis' f. 140 b.
16. De mensuris et ponderibus, the first ch. being 'De mensuris in liquidis'. Beg. 'Mensurarum in liquidis coclear est pars minima'. f. 141 b.
17. Diagram representing relative motions of the sun, moon, and planets. f. 143 b.
18. Tables (a) of the 'Ciclus magnus Pasche annorum d.xxx.ii', and (b) showing the 'dies in quibus Pasca celebrare debemus', with other movable feasts. ff. 144, 144 b.
19. 'Versus de ciclo Pasche magno': in 60 elegiacs. Beg. 'Compotus hic alphabeto confectus habetur. Currensnon iunctis rite karacteribus'. f. 145.
20. Diagram, with the description 'In hac figura minori superius ordo concurrentium retro autem descendendo series orditur epactarum'. f. 145 b.
21. 'Epistola Bede presbiteri ad Victedam [Wicredum] presbiterum' (so colophon). Imperf. at beg., the opening words being' [aequi] noctialem sui cursus' (cf. Migne, xciv. 676). f. 146.
22. Verses on the seven liberal arts, the first, Philosophia, having five hexameters, the rest four each Beg. 'Presedeo cunctis baiulans hoc nobile sceptrum'. The tetrastichs on Arithmetica, Dialectica, and Grammatica are identical with those in a similar series by an anonymous author printed, after Sirmond, by Migne, cv. 333, from a Vatican MS. (Cod. Lat. 341, 11th cent.; see Dümmler, Poetae Latini Aevi Caroltini, i, p. 629); but Musica (beg. 'Dulcisonos cantus uariatis uocibus edo and Rhetorica (beg. 'Per species quinque soleo discernere leges') are quite different, while Philosophia and Astrologia (beg. 'Euentus rerum sub certis indico signis') are not there represented, their places being taken by Sapientia and Astronomia. f. 149.
The fly-leaf is a portion of a leaf of a Register of letters [Close Roll ?] of Edward I for Mar. [1301]. The leaf has been cut along the top, bottom, and outer edge and the entries, none of which are unmutilated, begin on the verso. They comprise letters, &c., to (a, b) the sheriffs of cos. Oxon. and Worcester to prepare provisions for the royal household for the King's coming to Woodstock [and Evesham], dat. Medborne [co. Leic.], 8 Mar.;-(c) to the Bishop of Lincoln, repeating a former request sent by Hue de Val-Laumosnier, dat. Ocham [Oakham], 8 Mar.;-(d) to John de Tingewyke, keeper of Wittelwode [Whiitlewood] forest, saying that he has sent Will. de Rude 'oue noz bercelez pur . . . re dehors les nouciles bondee de mesmes la foreste', &c., dat. Medborne, 9 Mar.;-
(e) to Gautier de Beauchamp, 'nostre seneschal', sending 'chiens daymeres pur chacier dehors les nouelles boundes de la foreste [de F]eckenham', &c., dat. Hedrington [Harrington, co. Northt.], 9 Mar.;-(f) to the 'Official deuerwike' [York], in favour of his chaplain Gilbert de Grim[esby] 'par raison' dune chancerye a Bercleye' resigned by Wilrtam de Hameltone [date cut away];-
(g) to -, ordering 'totes les meisons du dit manoir' [Woodstock] to be prepared for his coming on Friday [17 Mar.], dat. Northampton, 10 Mar.;-(h) to Aliz [widow of John] de Montfort, requesting her to bring before himself and his council her case against th executors of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (d. 1298), dat. Northampton, 10 Mar.;-(i) to the sheriff of Leicester, repeating an order for payment 'as bones gentz de Leycestre' for goods supplied for the royal household,dat. Northampton, 10 Mar.;-(k) to Edward his son, requesting him to give the church of 'Banbor en leueschee de Cestre' [? Bangor-Iscoed, co. Flint, on the border of Cheshirel, vacant by the death of [Da]vid de la Poele, to William de la Poele, dat. Northampton, [10] Mar.;-
(l) to all sheriffs, &c., in favour of Wautier de Canterbire, 'vadlet de nostre botillerie', ordered to procure wine and beer for the royal household [date cut away].
Vellum; ff. 150. 91/4 in. x 6 in. XI-XII cent. Gatherings. i1O, ii2, iii13, iv8, v12, vi, vii10, viii5, ix2, x5, xi-xvi8, xvii2, xvii2, xviii8, xix4 (numbered ii). Sec. fol. 'tres relique'. Drawings of the constellation slightly tinted (ff. 105-112 b, see above, art. 9); initials in red and green, and large interlaced initials on ff. 1, 14b, 22, 30b, 32 b, 104, 120. On f. 145 b is the name 'Ja. Bonin' (14th cent.), and on f. 149 b 'De libris J. de Longolio' (15th cent.). Not identified in cat. of 1666 or CMA.'