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Details for manuscript 558

Manuscript №: 558
Location: London
Collection: British Library
Reference: Royal 13 E IX
Headnote: Chronica majora
Estimated date of production: s.xiv / xv
Folia: 326
Place of production: Hertfordshire
Produced for: St Albans Abbey
Notes: "The Benedictine abbey of St Alban. Thomas Walsingham, monk and precentor (c. 1360-c. 1425) is thought to have supervised the compilation of this manuscript. (see Clarke, 2004 p. 165)"; checked by KAM; 2 unfoliated parchment leaves between ff. 4 and 5
Sources for this record: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5567&CollID=16&NStart=130509; http://fama.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/65917; http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002106890; https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=what%3A%22BL+Royal+14+B+V%22&view=grid

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text	Title	Language	Start folio (ordinal)	End folio (ordinal)	Total pages
1	"Nomina Romanorum pontifcum"	Latin	2r (3)	2r (3)	1.0
2	Nomina Imperatorum	Latin	2v (4)	2v (4)	1.0
3	Des Grantz Geanz (Dean no. 40) (f.3)	French	3r (5)	3r (5)	0.5
4	Latin list of early British Kings	Latin	3r (5)	3r (5)	0.5
5	List of the kings in England from ' Horsus' (cancelled) and 'Hengistus' to 'Edward de Wyndeshore' (Edward III).	Latin	3v (6)	3v (6)	0.5
6	List of the kings in England from ' Horsus' (cancelled) and 'Hengistus' to 'Edward de Wyndeshore' (Edward III).	Latin	3v (6)	3v (6)	0.5
7	"Hec sunt cognomina procerum"	Latin	4r (7)	4r (7)	1.0
8	Gervase of Tilbury: Excerpts (ff. 5-22, 25v-26v, 72-77)	Latin	5r (9)	22r (43)	35.0
9	Imago mundi (ff. 22v-25v)	Latin	22v (44)	25v (50)	6.5
10	Gervase of Tilbury: Excerpts (ff. 5-22, 25v-26v, 72-77)	Latin	25v (50)	26v (52)	2.5
11	Prophesies of Merlin Silvester (ff. 27-28)	Latin	27r (53)	27v (54)	1.5
12	Visions of Thomas Becket (ff. 27v, 94)	Latin	27v (54)	27v (54)	0.5
13	Gervasius Tilberiensis (1152?-1220?), Otia imperialia	Latin	28r (55)	39v (78)	24.0
14	Travels (ff. 40-71v)	Latin	40r (79)	71v (142)	64.0
15	Gervase of Tilbury: Excerpts (ff. 5-22, 25v-26v, 72-77)	Latin	72r (143)	77v (154)	12.0
16	Anti-Alcoran and Life of Mahomet (ff. 78-94)	Latin	78r (155)	94r (187)	32.5
17	John of Rupescissa: Prophecy (f. 94v)	Latin	94v (188)	94v (188)	0.33
18	Visions of Thomas Becket (ff. 27v, 94)	Latin	94r (187)	94v (188)	0.83
19	Prophecy of a friar to Pope Innocent	Latin	94v (188)	95r (189)	0.83
20	Libellus de emendacione vite Ricardi heremit	Latin	95r (189)	101v (202)	13.5
21	Martinus Polonus: Chronicle (ff. 102-137v) (including a "Fragment of an inventory of relics at St. Albans Abbey")	Latin	102r (203)	137v (274)	72.0
22	John of Tynemouth: Historia Aurea (ff. 138-150)	Latin	138r (275)	150v (300)	26.0
23	Higden: Polychronicon (ff. 160-169v).	Latin	160r (319)	169v (338)	19.5
24	"Gesta regum Anglie compendiose compilata"	Latin	169v (338)	176r (351)	13.5
25	Chronicle	Latin	177r (353)	326v (652)	300.0

Owners of this manuscript

Owners
Owner number	Owner	Period	Gender	Type	Source
1	St Albans Abbey	s.xiv / xv	man	clerical	http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002106890