Royal MS 13 B XVI

NICHOLAS TRIVET (circ. 1258-1328), Annales, from the Creation to the Nativity of our Lord, in Latin, based mainly upon the Bible, Jerome, and Livy. Title (f. 2), 'Incipit annotacio temporum ab origine mundi extracta per fratrem Nicholaum Treueth de sacra scriptura secundum translacionem Ieronimi que immediate facta est de Hebraica ueritate'. Prologue (addressed to Hugh, Archdeacon of Canterbury and Papal Nuncio in England) beg. 'Venerande discretionis domino, &c. Antiquitatis mundane ponentes'; text, 'Anni primi die tercio quem scriptura sextum uocat'. Colophon, ' Expliciunt annales ab origine mundi descripti a fr. Nich. Treueth ord. predicatorum', &c. A French ersion exists in several MSS., but neither version has been printed.

At the end (f. 335 b) are two drafts of a letter signed 'John Malet', who has apparently also written a few words on the preceding page, with the date 1550.

Vellum ; ff. 335. 11⁵/₈ in x 7³/₄ in. XIV cent. Gatherings, a-i¹², k⁸, l¹², m¹¹, n-q¹², r¹⁰ (wrongly bound after t), s, t¹¹, v⁹, x⁶, y-i f¹², i g⁶, lettered and numbered with the plummet on the first six leaves of each (and remains of a numbering in small figures on all twelve ), and with catchwords. Leaves are missing after ff. 135, 188, 207, 225, 228, 234. Sec. fol. 'uero seculi'. Initials in red and blue. Belonged to John Theyer, who has written a few notes in the margins. Theyer sale-cat. no. 49; CMA. 6498.