Manuscripts
Work in progress.
f. [vi]r
Cardinal titles.
Ff. 1–6
Items described by Stubbs, vol. 1, pp. xxx-xxxiv, and largely edited; described by James.
f. 1ra
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Anglia’Incipit: ‘La lungure de Engleterre cuntent viiie lues ceo est a sauer de Escosce deskes a Toteneys en Cornwalle’
Short item, in French and Latin, on the “[m]easurement of England and Ireland, and of the division of the Heptarchic kingdoms” (Stubbs). Printed by Stubbs in the appendix to his preface, pp. [xlix]-[xlx].
f. 1r–
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Incipit Historia Britonum per compendium’
A history of the kings of Britain, from Brutus to Cadwallader.
f. 3v–
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Nomina regum Angliae et chronica Saxonum’
History of the kings of England, from Æthelstan to Edward I.
f. 5r
Heading/rubric: ‘Privilegium ecclesiae Sancti Petri Eboraci’
‘Privilege of church of Saint Peter in York’: Gregory’s letter to Augustine extracted from Bede.
f. 5rb–
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Chronica regum Northumbriae et archiepiscoporum Eboracensium’
A tract on the archbishops of York down to Thurstan. Also in Digby MS 140.
f. 6rb.1
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Nota quod Ybernia habet octingenta miliaria in longitudine’
Miscellaneous notes on topics summarised by Stubbs as: (a) the measurement of Ireland; (b) the number of kings from Brutus to Cadwalladr; (c) the length of time between the Conquest and Edward I; (d) the date of the battle of the Standard, “given wrongly”; (e) the homage of Scotland to Edward the Elder; (f) the children of John, Henry III., Richard king of the Romans, and Simon de Montfort. These notes begin about halfway in the right column, the upper part being left blank.
f. 6va
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant. extractIncipit: ‘[Item?/Sciendum?] quod in carta regis Edgari Scotiae Dunelmensi’
Five paragraphs extracted from a document in one of the Great Rolls of Scotland (known later as Magnus Rotulus Scotiae) concerning the rights of the English in Scotland.
f. 6va–
[Regnum Scotorum fuit inter cetera regna]
Heading/rubric: ‘Prophecia Sibille et Merlini uatis de Albania et Angl. et eorum euentibus’Incipit: ‘Regnum scocorum fuit inter cetera regna’
Poem. 44 lines, incl. the section that is also known separately as Bruti posteritas cum Scotis associata.
f. 6vb
[Gallorum levitas Germanos justificabit]
Heading/rubric: ‘Sibilla de eventibus regnorum et eorum regum ante finem mundi’Incipit: ‘Gallorum levitas Germanos justificabit’
Poem. 11 lines. Both Stubbs and James note that the final 7 of these are in a different hand.
