Manuscripts
f. 26va.m–
[De situ Albaniae]
Heading/rubric: ‘De situ Albaniae quae in se figuram hominis habet, quomodo fuit promitus in septem regionibus divisa, quibusque nominibus antiquitus sit vocata, et a quibus inhabitata’
f. 27rb.m–
[Cronica de origine antiquorum Pictorum]
Heading/rubric: ‘Cronica de origine antiquorum Pictorum’
Short text largely based on Isidore’s account of the Picts in Etymologia (19.23).
f. 27vb.i–
f. 28va.30–
[Chronicle of the kings of Alba ]
Incipit: ‘Kinadius igitur filius Alpini primus Scottorum rexit feliciter istam annis xui. Pictauiam’
No heading.
f. 29va.31–
[Cronica regum Scottorum cccxiiii annorum]
Heading/rubric: ‘Cronica regum Scottorum .ccc.xiiij. annorum’
Latin regnal list of Scottish kings, from Fergus mac Erc (here f. Eric), founder of Dál Riata, to William (the Lion), king of Scots (r. 1165–1214).
f. 30vb.m–
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.
Pedigree for William, king of Scots, with whom the preceding regnal list ends. It traces his descent back to Adam.
f. 31ra.m–
[St Andrews foundation legends]
Heading/rubric: ‘Qualiter acciderit quod memoria sancti Andree apostoli amplius in regione Pictorum quae nunc Scotia dicitur quam in ceteris regionibus sit [...]’
f. f. 32rb–
blank
The right column of f. 32r and all of the verso are left blank. A different hand starts on f. 33r.
ff. 33–106
Older manuscript.
f. 33r–
[Disciplina clericalis (Petrus Alfonsi)]
Hand (ff. 33–106)
Disciplina or Doctrina clericalis by Petrus Alfonsi (Amfulsus), physician to King Henry I of England.
f. 45ra–
[Liber de initio et fine seculi (Pseudo-Methodius)]
Heading/rubric: ‘Hic incipit prologus in libro Methodii martyris’Hand (ff. 33–106)
F. 48v is blank.
Scotland