MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. i.

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FOLIATION: f. 12^v

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Arnulfus, abbot of Bonae-vallis, De Operibus Sex dierum.

Begins (Prol.): "Apud Hebreos ante Moysen." Begins: "Omnium que sunt mouentur."

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FOLIATION: f. 35

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St Anselm, Monologion.

Begins (Dedication): "Reverendo et amando suo domino."

Begins (Preface): "Quidam fratres sepe me."

Begins: "Si quis unam naturam."

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• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xiv, f. 54
• BL, Burney MS 286, f. 53^v
• BL, Royal MS 5 C. iv, f. 33^v
• BL, Arundel MS 372, f. 10
• BL, Royal MS 6 D. viii, f. 5
• BL, Royal MS 7 B. ix, f. 105

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FOLIATION: f. 39

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St Anselm, Prosologion.

Begins (Prologue): "Postquam opusculum."

Begins: "Eya nunc homuncio."

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• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xiv, f. 82^v
• BL, Arundel MS 372, f. 22
• BL, Royal MS 6 D. viii, f. 19^v
• BL, Add. MS 15407, f. 40
• BL, Harley MS 103, f. 109
• BL, Harley MS 3059, f. 46^v
• BL, Royal MS 5 C. iv, f. 47^v

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FOLIATION: f. 48^v

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St Anselm, De processione Spiritus Sancti.

Begins: "Negatur a Grecis."

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• BL, Royal MS 5 E. v, f. 50
• BL, Add. MS 11419, f. 36
• BL, Arundel MS 372, f. 42
• BL, Royal MS 5 F. ix, f. 77
• BL, Add. MS 15407, f. 58
• BL, Royal MS 5 E xiv, f. 157
• BL, Royal MS 6 D. viii, f. 27
• BL, Royal MS 7 B. ix, f. 114^v
• BL, Royal MS 4 B. x, f. 100
• BL, Burney MS 286, f. 39
• BL, Royal MS 5 C. iv, f. 25
• BL, Harley MS 3059, f. 30^v
• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xxi, f. 66^v

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FOLIATION: f. 58^v

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St Anselm, De casu diaboli.

Begins: "Illud apostoli quid habes."

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• BL, Arundel MS 372, f. 56^v
• BL, Add. MS 11419, f. 20^v
• BL, Add. MS 15407, f. 73
• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xiv, f. 109^v
• BL, Royal MS 6 D. viii, f. 82^v
• BL, Burney MS 286, f. 7^v
• BL, Harley MS 3059, f. 1
• BL, Harley MS 203, f. 65^v
• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xxi, f. 96^v

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FOLIATION: f. 69

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St Anselm, Cur deus homo.

Begins (Preface): "Opus subditum."

Begins: "Sepe et studiosissime."

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• BL, Royal MS 2 C. vi, f. 82
• BL, Harley MS 4352, f. 65
• BL, Harley MS 3074, f. 90
• BL, Add. MS 15407, f. 100^v
• BL, Add. MS 17511, f. 41
• BL, Royal MS 6 D. viii, f. 42
• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xiv, f. 125^v
• BL, Arundel MS 372, f. 25
• BL, Royal MS 7 B. ix, f. 143
• BL, Harley MS 3059, f. 9
• BL, Harley MS 203, f. 75
• BL, Burney MS 286, f. 19
• BL, Royal MS 5 E. xxi, f. 27
• BL, Royal MS 8 D. iii, f. 145
• BL, Royal MS 5 C. iv, f. 1

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FOLIATION: f. 96^v

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St Anselm, De gratia et libero arbitrio.

Begins: "Restat nunc ut de gratia."

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• BL, Royal MS 7 C. iii, f. 201

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 9

FOLIATION: ff. 334^v-336

CONTENT:

John Whethamstede, abbot of St Albans abbey (1420-40, 1452-65), attrib., Lives of Sts Alban and Amphibal.

Entitled: Tractatus de nobilitate, vita et martirio sanctorum Albani et Amphibali, de quodam libro Gallico excer[p]tus et in Latinam translatus.

Begins: "I. De Tributo et Legibus Iulii Cesaris in Regno Britannie et Institutis. Iulius Cesar primus Romanorum imperator ..."

Ends: "et pax est reddita ecclesie Sancte Dei."

The Lives' authorship has been attributed to Whethamstede by Howlett, who has also suggested that they were translated from Matthew Paris's Vie de Seint Auban.

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DATING: Galbraith thought it "tolerably certain" that Claudius E. iv was written before Sept. 1394.

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• Bodl., MS Bodley 585 (S.C. 2357), ff. 1-9^v (written in the 1440s)

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• John Lydgate, The Life of Saint Alban and Saint Amphibal, ed. J.E. van der Westhuizen (Leyden, 1974), pp. 277-85, appx. A.

LITERATURE:

• V.H. Galbraith, The St Albans Chronicle, 1406-1420 (Oxford, 1937), pp. xxxviii, lxi.
• D.R. Howlett, "A St Albans Historical Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century", Trans., Cambridge Bibliographical Soc., vi, pt. 3 (1974), pp. 195-200.
• Lydgate, Life of St Alban, ed. van der Westhuizen, p. 38.
• W. McLeod, "Alban and Amphibal: Some Extant Lives and a Lost Life", Mediaeval Studies, xlii (1980), pp. 407-30, at 417-18.

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. v.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 8

FOLIATION: ff. 249^v-

CONTENT:

Ralph d'Escures, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1122), and the church of Canterbury, letter to Pope Calixtus II, complaining of the consecration of Thurstan as archbishop of York (1119) without any profession of obedience to Canterbury, and giving an historical account of Canterbury's claims.

Begins: "Reverendissimo domino et unice colendo patri summo pontifici Calixto, [etc.]. Quoniam exigentibus malis nostris."

ORIGIN:

DATING: The letter is datable to soon after Thurstan's consecration (19 Oct. 1119). Raine dated it to 1119; H. Boehmer, Die Fälschungen Erzbischof Lanfranks von Canterbury (Leipzig, 1902), p. 41n., dated it 1120.

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• BL, Cotton MS Domitian A. v, ff. 2-12^v.
• Bodl., MS Laud 407 (S.C. 816) (Transcript, 17th century).

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• R. Twysden, Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X (London, 1652), cols. 1735- 48.
• Wilkins, Concilia, I, pp. 396-404. [From Domitian A. v.]
• Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops, ed. J. Raine, 3 vols. (Rolls Ser., 71, 1879-94), II, pp. 228-51. [Based on Claud. E.v.]

LITERATURE:

• Hardy, Descriptive Cat., II, pp. 147-8, no. 212. Historians of the Church of York, ed. Raine, II, p. xvi.

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. vi.

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FOLIATION: f. 137

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Sir Thomas Docwra, prior, and the knights of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England: lease to Thomas Wolsey, archbishop of York, of the manor of Hampton Court (co. Midd.), for 99 years from 24 June 1514, at a rent of £50 p.a.

The lease is followed by an inventory of the chapel, parlour, hall, kitchen, stable and tower chamber.

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DATING: St John's priory, Clerkenwell, 11 Jan. 1514/15.

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• B.M. [i.e. Henry Ellis], "Lease of the Manor of Hampton Court to Cardinal Wolsey", Gentleman's Mag., n.s. i (Jan. - June 1834), pp. 45-7. [From Claud. E. vi.]

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. vii.

ARTICLE: Not specified in Planta

FOLIATION: f. 82

CONTENT:

Henry VIII, appointment of Alderman Sir John Tate (d. 1515) as justiciary for the merchants of Almaine of the "Guildehalla Teutonicorum" in London.

Latin. Copy.

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DATING: Westminster, 16 October 1511.

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• P.R.O. [original]

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• Georg Schanz, Englische Handelspolitik gegen Ende des Mittelatters, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1881), II, pp. 430-1. [From Claud. E. vii.]
• L.P., 2nd edn., I, pt. 1, p. 469, no. 903. [Cal., from Claud. E. vii.]

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. vii.

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FOLIATION: f. 99

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List of cloth shipments by Steelyard and foreign merchants, annually, from 1 Edward II (1307-8) to 3 Edward VI (1549-50); extracted from the Exchequer records.

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DATING: Presumably compiled c. 1550, since the closing date is referred to as "Michaelmas last past." Lappenberg dated it 1552; Gould dated the last year 1550-1.

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• J. M. Lappenberg, Urkundliche Geschichte des hansischen Stalhofes zu London, 2 pts. (Hamburg, 1851), II, pp. 175-6, no. cliv. [From Claud. E. vii.]
• I.D. Colvin, The Germans in England, 1066-1598 (London, 1915), pp. 241-2. [Purportedly from Claud. E. vii.]
• J. D. Gould, The Great Debasement. Currency and the Economy in Mid-Tudor England (Oxford, 1970), pp. 173-6. [Extracts from Claud. E. vii.]

LITERATURE:

• Gould, The Great Debasement, pp. 133-4.

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. viii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 4

FOLIATION: f. 1^v

CONTENT:

Account of St Thomas Becket's vision in the abbey church of Ste-Colombe, Sens, where the Virgin appeared to him with an eagle of gold and a stone phial of consecration oil which she placed in the eagle.

Warner and Gilson, Cat. Royal MSS, s.v. Royal MS 13 E. IX, artt. 10 and 16, distinguish two versions of the vision: both begin more-or-less the same, but the longer version (art. 16) ends "dolor habundabit super miseram Egyptum", while the shorter (art. 10) ends "si hoc esset constitutum a Deo."

The earliest surviving manuscript, Royal MS 12 C. XII, is dated by Warner and Gilson to c. 1320- 40, while the prophecy is referred to in a papal letter of 1316x20.

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• BL, Cotton MS Cleopatra B. i, f. 182^v (art. 7)
• BL, Cotton MS Cleopatra C. iv, f. 114 (art. 25)
• BL, Cotton MS Titus D. vii, ff. 28-29 (art. 3)
• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian E. vii, ff. 115-116 (art. 10 (f))
• Bodl., MS Ashmole 1393, ff. 52, 54 (early 15th cent.)
• Bodl., MS Ashmole 59, f. 77 (15th cent.)
• and see further Sandquist, "Holy Oil of St. Thomas", p. 331 n.4

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• English Coronation Records, ed. L.G. Wickham Legg (London, 1901), pp. 169-71. [From Bodl., MSS Ashmole 1393 and 59; with Engl. transln.]

LITERATURE:

• Ward, Cat. of Romances, I, p. 301.
• T.A. Sandquist, "The Holy Oil of St. Thomas of Canterbury", in Essays in Medieval History presented to Bertie Wilkinson, ed. T.A. Sandquist and M.R. Powicke (Toronto, 1969), pp. 330-44.
• J.R.S. Phillips, "Edward II and the Prophets", in England in the Fourteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. W.M. Ormrod (Woodbridge, co. Suff., etc., 1986), pp. 189-201, at 196-201.

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. viii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 27

FOLIATION: ff. 237-257^v

CONTENT:

Adam Murimuth (d. 1347), "Continuation of the Chronicles of the Kings of England", 1303-1341. The chronicle, which itself increasingly comprises copies of documents, is followed (ff.2 -2 ) by a group of further documents of the reign of Edward III, not in chronological order.

Rubric: "Incipit continuatio cronicarum Regum Anglie cum interpositione quorundam casuum contingentium in ecclesia Romana et regno Francie, sicut eidem scribenti suis temporibus occurrebatur."

Begins: "Quoniam ut scribitur per antiquos, res audita perit, litera scripta manet."

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• BL, Cotton MS Otho C. ii, ff. 90-107
• and see list by E.M. Thompson in his edn., pp. xvi-xxi

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• Adam Murimuth, Chronica sui Temporis ..., ed. Thomas Hog (English Historical Soc., 1846), pp. 1- 130.
• Adam Murimuth, Continuatio Chronicarum ..., ed. E.M. Thompson (Rolls Ser., 93, 1889), pp. 1- 121. [Based on BL, MS Harl. 3836; collates Claud. E. viii.]

LITERATURE:

• Murimuth, Chronica, ed. Hogg, pp. xv-xvi.
• Murimuth, Continuatio Chronicarum, ed. Thompson, p. xviii.
• Gransden, Historical Writing, II, pp. 29-31, 64-7.

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius E. viii.

ARTICLE: ? in Planta's art. 27

FOLIATION: f. 256

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Thomas of Lancaster, earl of Leicester and Lancaster (d. 1322): letter to Edward II, in answer to the king's rebuke to him, 21 July [1317], for holding meetings of armed men.

Begins: "Treschiere sire, nous receumes deux lettres desouz vostre grant seal, par les mainz monsire William de Dene, a Ayschburne en le Peek, le xxj. jour de July"

Anglo-Norman.

A Latin version is in the Chronicle of a Canon of Bridlington [Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols. (Rolls Ser., 76, 1882-3), II, pp. 50-2].

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DATING: Not dated; datable to soon after 21 July 1317.

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• Adam Murimuth, Continuatio Chronicarum ..., ed. E. Maunde Thompson (Rolls Ser., 93, 1889), pp. 271-6. [From Claud. E. viii; with Engl. transln.]

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MS British Library Cotton Claudius B. ix.

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FOLIATION: ff. 1-264^v

CONTENT:

Helinand, monk of Froidmond (dioc. of Beauvais), Chronicon, in 48 books.

The Chronicon runs to 1204, though from 1186 "it consists of mere annalistic jottings" (Rathbone, p. 36). Helinand fl. from the 1190s to 1229, according to F. Wulff and E. Walberg, introduction to their edition of his Vers de la Mort (Paris, 1905), pp. vii-xvii.

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• None known to Rathbone.

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• The first part is unpublished, according to Rathbone, who hoped "shortly to make a study of this work, editing parts at least."
• B. Tissier, Bibliotheca Patrum Cisterciensium ..., VII (Bonnefont, 1669).
• Migne, P.L., ccxii, cols. 771-1082. [Books 45-8, from 634 to 1204; reprinted from Tissier.]

LITERATURE:

• Eleanor Rathbone, "Master Albert of London, "Mythographus Tertius Vaticanus"", M.A.R.S., i (1941), pp. 35-8, at 36-7.

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