Extracts, many of them very short

Title

Extracts, many of them very short

Shelfmark

MS. James 10

Summary

Extracts, many of them very short, chiefly from Cottonian MSS., among which the following are worthy of mention:

P. 1. Vesp. B. xix, the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury (printed in the Rolls Series)

P. 32. notes from essays (Cott. MS. Nero C. x) written by Edward vi, printed in Literary remains of Edward vi (Roxburgh Club, 1857, no. 74), p. 475

P. 35. extracts from Cott. MS. Jul. E i, a 13th-cent. collection of official letters concerning Gascony

P. 45. notes from Roger Bacon 'de impedimentis sapientiae' in Cott. MS. Galba A. viii, which is now missing from the Cottonian collection and (p. 54), a 13th-cent. MS. of the laws of William i and Henry i

P. 70. excerpts from William Fitz-Stephen's life of Becket in Cott. MS. Jul. A. xi, the 'Dialogus de scaccario' in Cott. MS. Cleop. A. xvi (p. 75), John of Brompton's chronicle in Cott. MS. Tib. C. xvi (p. 95), two St. Alban's chronicles in Cott. MS. Claud. E. iv (p. 102)

P. 117. copies of five Carolingian charters to St. Martin's, Utrecht, followed (p. 118) by excerpts from Regino's chronicle, as printed in Mon. Germ. Hist. i. 547, and the chronicle of an anonymous monk of Utrecht, from the same MS. (p. 128)

P. 142. a brief note apparently from Cott. MS. Vitell. D. x, the chronicle of Thomas Sprott, now missing, followed by longer excerpts from well known MSS. as Ildebert's epistles (p. 143), Henry Knighton's chronicle, probably from Cott. MS. Claud. E. iii (p. 155), Fleta in Cott. MS. Jul. B. viii (p. 160), and the Vita Ricardi Secundi in Cott. MS. Claud. B. ix (p. 183)

Date

Written about 1625-1638 by Richard James

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

192 pages