MS British Library Cotton Julius A. i.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 1

FOLIATION: f. 2^v (Planta's 1^v)

CONTENT:

The origin of the Stywarde family arms.

Drawing of an armed knight, wearing mail and a helm, holding up in both hands a tree trunk with which he is preparing to strike a lion rampant. The knight's surcoat has the arms: a fess checky.

The broken pieces of a sword lie under the knight's feet. From the upper left hand corner descends a hand holding a shield displaying the knight's arms; the descending hand's arm is under a sleeve decorated with fleurs de lys, and fleurs de lys also decorate the border that frames the whole scene.

The inscription below is largely lost and it is only possible to read: "...corum cum hac Figura picta incoloribus facta ...ward qui Londoniis modo ...de Ramsey." The words "...ward" and "de" are as copied by Francis Douce (d. 1834) in his copy of Planta's Catalogue (now in the Bodleian Library, Douce P. subt. 33).

The drawing illustrates the incident in which the Stewart family allegedly gained the arms of argent a lion gules debruised by a ragged staff, when Andrew Stewart slew the lion of Balliol with a ragged staff and in return received from Charles VI, king of France, the right to bear the lion and staff as an augmentation of honour on the Stewart arms. This claim seems first to have been made by Robert Steward, the last prior and first dean of Ely (d. 1557), and to have been allowed in a grant of arms to him by Thomas Wriothesley, Garter king of arms, 14 Sept. 1520 (transcribed in BL, Add. MS 15644, f. 2^r-v).

ORIGIN:

DATING: The knight's armour would suggest a mid 13th-century date; but the lettering below is in the style of a later date. Presumably this version of the scene was executed in the 16th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Other versions of the same picture are in e.g. Augustine Stywarde's cartulary, BL Add. MS
• 15644, ff. 60^v and 72^r (c. 1567), a Stewart pedigree-roll, partly dated 1557, that in 1829 belonged to Nathaniel Lee-Acton of Bramford Hall, near Ipswich (engraved in Archaeologia, xxiii, p. 388), and in a late 16th-century stained glass window (engraved as the frontispiece to Round's Studies in Peerage and Family History).

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• F. Martin, "Origin of the Tressure of Scotland", Archaeologia, xxiii (1831), pp. 387-92.
• W. Rye, "Oliver Cromwell's Descent from the Stewart Family", Genealogist, n.s. i (1884), pp. 150-7.
• J.H. Round, Studies in Peerage and Family History (Westminster, 1901), pp. 133-44. H. Steward, "Cromwell's Stuart Ancestry", Proc., Cambridge Antiquarian Soc., xxvii (1926, for 1924-5), pp. 86-122, at 90-1, 112-16.
• C.E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani ... (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 315-16, sub nom. Steward.
• British Heraldry, from its Origins to c. 1800, comp. and ed. R. Marks and Ann Payne, exhibn. cat. (London: British Museum and British Library, 1978), p. 91, no. 143.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. i.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 4

FOLIATION: ff. 51-62

CONTENT:

Fragment of a Brut chronicle of the reign of Edward II beginning in 1307 and ending abruptly in the narrative of 1322. It is followed by transcripts of: the indictment of Hugh Despencer (ff. 54-56); the renunciation of homage by Sir William Trussel (f. 57); the statute against the Despencers (ff. 57- 59^v); the text of the coronation office of Edward III (ff. 60-62); and two letters to Queen Isabella, the second, dated 30 June 1321 warning her of a lepers' conspiracy in France (ff. 62-63; the first letter is also datable to 1321, according to Richardson and Sayles "Early Coronation Records. Supplementary Notes", p. 146).

Richardson and Sayles pointed out that the texts on ff. 54-63 "form no part of the [Brut] chronicle", but are simply "documents thought worth transcribing on the blank leaves of the last quire on which the chronicle was written" ["Early Coronation Records. Supplementary Notes", p. 146].

M.V. Clarke suggested that the chronicle "may have been written" in Pipewell abbey (co. Northants.) ["Committees of Estates and the Deposition of Edward II", p. 44; Representation and Consent, p. 193].

Anglo-Norman.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Written in a hand of the first half of the 14th century.

PROVENANCE:

T.D. Hardy noted [P.R.O., PRO 37/75, f. 5] that the Brut chronicle is seemingly a fragment of College of Arms, MS Arundel 31.

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• M.V. Clarke, "Committees of Estates and the Deposition of Edward II", in Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait, ed. J.G. Edwards, V.H. Galbraith and E.F. Jacob (Manchester, 1933), pp. 27-45, at 44-5. [Narrative of events of 13 and 20 Jan. 1327; from Jul. A. i, f. 56^r-v.]
• M.V. Clarke, Representation and Consent (London and New York, 1936), pp. 194-5. [Revised from eadem, in Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait. Narrative of events of 13 and 20 Jan. 1327; from Jul. A. i, f. 56^r-v.]

LITERATURE:

• Clarke, "Deposition of Edward II", in Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait, pp. 35, 44.
• H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, "Early Coronation Records. Supplementary Notes", B.I.H.R., xiv (1936-7), pp. 145-8, at 145-7.
• Gransden, Historical Writing, II, p. 3(-4) n. 13.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ii.

ARTICLE: Smith's art. 4; Planta's art. 5

FOLIATION: ff. 137^v-140

CONTENT:

Dialogue between Adrian and Ritheus.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Bodl., MS Junius 45 (S.C. 5157). [Transcript of Julius A. ii by F. Junius.] Bodl., MS Junius 61 (S.C. 5172). [Transcript of Julius A. ii by F. Junius.]

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• T. Wright, "Adrian and Ritheus" in Altdeutsche Blätter, ed. M. Haupt and A. H. Hoffmann, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1836-40), II, pp. 189-93.
• J. M. Kemble, The Dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus... (Aelfric Soc., 1848), pp. 198-206. L. Ettmüller, Engla and Seaxna Scopas and Boceras, Bibliothek der Gesammten Deutschen National-Literatur, xxviii (Quedlinburgh, Leipzig and London, 1850), pp. 39-42. [Based on Wright.]
• The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus, ed. James E. Cross and Thomas D. Hill (Toronto, etc., 1982), pp. 35-40.

LITERATURE:

• Ker, Cat. MSS Anglo-Saxon, p. 202, no. 159, art. 2.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 6

FOLIATION: f. 140^v

CONTENT:

Notes on the two thieves hanged at the Crucifixion, the measurement of Noah's ark, St Peter's church, etc.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 183, ff. 68^v-69^v. [Latin parallels to some of this material].

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• A.S. Napier, "Altenglische Kleinigkeiten", Anglia, xi (1889), pp. 1- at 5
• M. Förster, "Zu Adrian und Ritheus", Englische Studien, xxiii (1897), pp. 431- at 433

LITERATURE:

• Ker, Cat. MSS Anglo-Saxon, p.202, no. 159, art. 3. The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus, ed. James E. Cross and Thomas D. Hill (Toronto, etc., 1982). p. 16.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ii.

ARTICLE: Smith's art. 5; Planta's art. 7

FOLIATION: ff. 141-144^r

CONTENT:

Certain of the Distichs of Cato, in an Old English translation, followed by apophthegms independent of the Distichs, also in Old English.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Translated late in the Anglo-Saxon period. Written in the mid 12th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian D. xiv, ff. 7-11^v.
• Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.9.17 (no. 819), ff. 45-48^v.
• Bodl., MS Junius 45 (S.C. 5157), ff. 4-8^v (transcript of Julius A.
• ii, by F. Junius).

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• J. M. Kemble, The Dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus (Ælfric Soc., 1848), pp. 258-68. [Based on Julius A. ii; with a modern English translation.]
• R. S. Cox, "The Old English Dicts of Cato", Anglia, xc (1972), pp. 1-42, at 5-16.

LITERATURE:

• J. Nehab, "Der altenglische Cato", PhD thesis, Göttingen University, 1879)
• G. Schleich, review of J. Nehab, Der altenglische Cato, in Anglia, iii (1879-80), pp. 383-96.
• Ker, Cat. MSS Anglo-Saxon, p.202, no.159, art.4.
• Cox, "The Old English Dicts of Cato", Anglia, xc (1972), pp.1-5, 17-42.
• M. Lapidge, "The Study of Latin Texts in Late Anglo-Saxon England. 1. The Evidence of Latin Glosses", in Latin and the Vernacular Languages in Early Medieval England, ed. Nicholas P. Brooks (Leicester, 1982), pp. 99-140, at 102-5.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 1

FOLIATION: f.1^v

CONTENT:

Sonnet to King Henry VII.

Headed: A la bonne grace du Roy.

Begins: A celluy qui est tout mon confort.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Memorials of King Henry the Seventh. Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate conscripta, ed. James Gairdner (Rolls Ser., 10, 1858), p. 95.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 2

FOLIATION: f.1^v

CONTENT:

Poem in honour of Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII. Written in connection with her proposed marriage to Charles, prince of Castile, c. 1507-8.

Headed: Chancon faicte en l'honneur de Madame Marie.

Begins: Reveillez vous cueurs endormis (also = refrain).

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

Several words were lost, by the tearing away of the MS, in the time between Ellis's and Gairdner's editions (1825 and 1858).

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Ellis, Original Letters, 1st ser., I, pp. 119-20.
• Memorials of King Henry the Seventh. Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate conscripta, ed. James Gairdner (Rolls Ser., 10, 1858), pp. 95-6.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Bernard André (fl. 1485-1521), annals of 1507-8 the twenty-third year of the reign of King Henry VII,

Headed:

Latin.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

• f. : Memorials of King Henry the Seventh, ed. Gairdner, frontis., no. 3 (coloured lithograph).

PRINTED:

• Memorials of King Henry the Seventh. Historia Regis Henrici Septimi, a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate conscripta, ed. James Gairdner (Rolls Ser., 10, 1858), pp. 97-130.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. v.

ARTICLE: Smith's, Planta's art. 1

FOLIATION: f.5 (Planta's f.2)

CONTENT:

Verses about John Balliol, king of Scotland 1292-6, and the affairs of Scotland, exulting at their low state.

Begins: Ecce dies veniunt Scoti sine principe fiunt.

Latin.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Composition datable probably to soon after Balliol had sailed to Normandy in 1299; written c.1300.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Political Songs of England..., ed. T. Wright (Camden Soc., old ser., vi, 1839), pp. 180-1.

LITERATURE:

• Hardy, Descriptive Cat., III, p. 263, no. 472.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. v.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 4

FOLIATION: ff. 53-

CONTENT:

Peter of Langtoft, canon of Bridlington (fl. 1271-1307), chronicle.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Royal MS 20 A. II (14th cent.)
• BL, Royal MS 20A. XI (14th cent.)
• Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg. 1. 1

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Political Songs of England ..., ed. T. Wright (Camden Soc., old ser., vi, 1839), pp. 273-323. Excerpts. Based on CUL MS Gg. 1. 1, collated with Jul. A. v and other MSS, and then on Jul. A. v, collated with other MSS.]

LITERATURE:

• Political Songs, ed. Wright, pp. 390-9.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. v.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 6

FOLIATION: f.

CONTENT:

Prayer to the Virgin Mary, known as "La plainte Nostre Dame".

43 quatrains.

Begins: "Dame cou?rouné floure de parays De haut chose emprendre me fu entremys."

Ends: "E pur l'amour Marie nous meigne en sauveté."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Add. MS 46919 (olim Phillipps 8336), ff. 77^v-78^r BL, Royal MS 8 E. XVII, f. 107^v (begins "Reeine de gloire, flur" [etc.]).

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft ..., ed. Thomas Wright, 2 vols. (Rolls Ser., 47, 18 -68), II, pp. 438-47. [From Jul. A. v; with Engl. transln.]
• F.J. Tanquerey, Plaintes de la Vierge en anglo-français (Paris, 1921), pp. 125- 35.

LITERATURE:

• A. L&134;ngfors, Les Incipit des Poèmes Français antérieurs au XVI^e siècle, I (Paris, [1917]), p. 346.
• Vising, Anglo-Norman Language & Literature, p. 53, no. 96.
• J. Sonet, Répertoire d'Incipit de Prières en ancien français (Geneva, 1956), no. 1782. [With incipit as "Reïgne corounee, flour de paraïs."]
• E. Brayer, "Catalogue des textes liturgiques et des petits genres religieux", Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, vi, no. 2 (1970), pp. 19-53, at p. , no. 944. Bouly de Lesdain, Manuscrits didactiques, 1966, pp. 56, 62.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. v.

ARTICLE: Smith's art. 8; Planta's art. 10.

FOLIATION: ff. 181^v-187^r (formerly 176^v-182^r)

CONTENT:

Versified history, in Anglo-Norman, of the assault on Mansourah, February 1250, and especially of the valiant conduct and death of William Longespée, earl of Salisbury.

460 lines.

Begins: Ky vodra de doel & de pite oier tresgraunt.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• S. Bentley, Excerpta Historica...(London, 1833), pp. 64-84. [Printed and translated.]
• [M. L.] Achille Jubinal, Nouveau Recueil de Contes, Dits, Fabliaux et autres pièces inédites des xiii^e, xiv^e et xv^e siècles, 2 vols. (Paris, 1839-42), II, pp. 339-53.

LITERATURE:

• Hardy, Descriptive Cat., III, p. 122.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. vi.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Hymnal, 11th cent.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

At Durham Cathedral Priory; identifiable by its 2^o folio, principium iani, with the hymnal in Durham catalogues of books in the Spendement 1391 and late 14th cent., as M.R. James discovered [Catalogi Veteres Ecclesie Cathedralis Dunelmensis, ed. J. Raine (Surtees Soc., vii, 1838), pp. 33, 111 (whence E.G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts, from the X^th to the XIII^th Century (Paris and Brussels, 1926), p. 77, inserted Corrigendum).

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. vii.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

ff. 1-54 (Bonizo of Sutri, Chron. Romanorum Pontificum, and Chronicle of Man, etc.) belonged to Rushen abbey, Isle of Man [Ker, MLGB, p. 164.]

Art. 3 (ff. - ) is presumably identifiable with the Chronica regum Mannie et insularum which John Leleand owned; cf. its incipit, Anno ab incarnatione domini M. Rex [John Bale, Index Britanniae Scriptorum, ed. R.L. Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902), p. 484.]

Art. 3 was bought from George Rookeby by Roger Dodsworth; Dodsworth states in a transcript of it that he made (now Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College, MS 793/828) that in 1621 he gave the original MS to Sir Robert Cotton [M.R. James, Supplement to the Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge, 1914), pp. 41-2]. Smith states that Dodsworth gave the Man Chronicle in 1620.

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. vii.

ARTICLE: Part of Smith's art. 10; Planta's art. 10.

FOLIATION: ff. 88^v-90^r (Planta's ff. 86^v-88^r)

CONTENT:

De mutatione mala Ordinis Cistercii, poem about the decay of the Cistercian order.

Begins: Dulcis ordo Cistercii dudum candens ut lilii.

ORIGIN: Probably composed in the environs of London, in about the late 13th century (Meyer).

DATING: Written in England, in the 14th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Wilhelm Meyer, "Zwei Gedichte zur Geschichte des Cistercienser Ordens", Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, 1908, pp. 396-405, at 402-405.

LITERATURE:

• Meyer, pp. 396-402.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. viii.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Thomas Otterbourne, Chronicle of the kings of England from Brutus to King Edward III, ending in 1359.

According to T.D. Hardy, it is based chiefly on William of Malmesbury and then Higden and the Historia Anglicana of Walsingham; Otterbourne occasionally adds to the last of these. "He seems to have [had] before him either the Cottonian MS Nero A. vi or the materials from which that was compiled" [T.D. Hardy, MS Continuation of his Descriptive Cat., P.R.O., PRO 37/77, f. 133].

Begins: "Nacto olim otio a tumultu seculi"

Ends: "circa hoc tempus illa magna et famosa comitiva est orta, et ex uariis nacionibus adunata, cuius duces pro maiori parte erant Angligene." The page is completed in a hand of the 16th or 17th century, ending: "Eodem etiam anno Rex Edwardus suum tenuit Parliamentum apud Westmonasterium, in quo quia suæ ætatis extitit annus quinquagesimus."

Kingsford suggested that "from certain characteristics of his Chronicle, [Otterbourne] appears, as his name implies, to have been of northern origin. He may possibly be identical with the Thomas Otterbourne who became rector of Chingford [co. Essex] in 1393" [English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century, p. 21].

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vitellius F. ix, ff. 147-197^v (16th or 17th-century transcript of
• Harl. 3643, continuing it to 1420)
• BL, MS Harl. 3643, art. 1 (15th century; once at Eton College)
• BL, MS Harl. 6223, art. 2 (excerpts, in Engl. transln., from Harl. 3643, by John Stow)
• Bodl., MS Jones 6 (S.C. 8913) (transcript made for Bishop John Fell (d. 1686);
• apparently Hearne's F)
• Bodl., MS Rawl. B. 204, art. 1 (transcript of Vit. F. ix, made for T. Hearne)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Duo Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Veteres, viz: Thomas Otterbourne et Johannes Whethamstede, ed. T. Hearne, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1732), I, pp. 3-143. [From Vit. F. ix., as transcribed in Rawl. B. 204.]

LITERATURE:

• Otterbourne, ed. Hearne, I, pp. xxiii-xxxii.
• C.L. Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford, 1913), pp. 21-3.
• Gransden, Historical Writing in England, II, p. 196.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ix.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 2

CONTENT:

St Bernard, De vita reclusorum.

Begins: "Cum aliquid boni faciendo."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ix.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 16

CONTENT:

De reclusis.

Begins: "Secunda secunde."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ix.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 22

CONTENT:

St Bernard, Scala claustralium (a fragment).

Begins: "In die quadam corporali."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ix.

ARTICLE: Smith's, Planta's art. 1

FOLIATION: ff. 2-22^v (misbound; correct order is: 2-11, 21, 18, 14-17, 13, 19-20, 12, 22)

CONTENT:

Rule for recluses, followed by tractates answering three Quaestiones of Aquinas about the solitary life.

Headed: "Ihesus. De vita reclusorum ut creditur sec[undum Bern]ardum."

Begins: "Cum aliquid boni faciendum accenderit (attenderit?) animum."

Ends: "ut dicit Augustinus in libro de dignitatibus quo supra. Explicit de reclusis exemplar falsum et incorrectum."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 141, ff. 50-55^v (A.D. 1433).

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• L. Oliger, "Regula Reclusorum Angliae et Quaestiones tres de Vita solitaria", Antonianum, ix (1934), pp. 37-84, 243-68, at 53-84, 243-59.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. ix.

ARTICLE: Planta's arts. 5-7

FOLIATION: ff. 158-170

CONTENT:

Part of a register or letter-book of Abingdon abbey (co. Berks.).

ORIGIN:

DATING: Written in the early 14th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Documents Illustrating the Activities of the General and Provincial Chapters of the English Black Monks, 1215-1540, ed. W.A. Pantin, I (Camden 3rd ser., xlv, 1931), pp. 28-31. [Prints letters from f. 159^r-v.]
• Rosalind M.T. Hill, English Ecclesiastical Letter-Books of the Thirteenth Century (priv. ptd., n.d. [1937]). [Calendars the whole letter-collection (at pp. 69-75), and prints ff. 166-167 (at pp. 269- 273).]

LITERATURE:

• W.A. Pantin, "English Monastic Letter-Books", in Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait, ed. J.G. Edwards, V.H. Galbraith and E.F. Jacob (Manchester, 1933), pp. 201-222, at 213.
• S.D. Lloyd, "Crusader Knights and the Land Market in the Thirteenth Century", in Thirteenth Century England, ii, Proceeding of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference, 1987, ed. P.R. Coss and S.D. Lloyd (Woodbridge, 1988), pp. 119-36, at 121-4.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. x.

ARTICLE: Smith's, Planta's art. 2

FOLIATION: ff. 44-175 (misbound from Wanley's time until 1858, when order corrected by Madden)

CONTENT:

Martyrology.

Written around the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries (Ker), in four hands. There are 12th-century alterations to the text on ff. 153^v, 159.

Incomplete; wants quires at beginning and end and after ff. 59 and 113.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vitellius D. vii, f. 131 [extracts from CCC MS 196 by J. Joscelyn.]
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 196, pp. 1-110
• Bodl. MS Gough Sax. Lit. 2, ff. [Transcript of Jul. A. x by Elizabeth Elstob (d. 1756))

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• An Old English Martyrology, ed. G. Herzfeld, E.E.T.S., s., cxvi (1900).
• G. Binz, Beiblatt zur Anglia, xii (1901), pp. 363- . [Corrects errors of Herzfeld's edn.]

LITERATURE:

• Hickes, Thesaurus, ii, pp. 185-6.
• R.T. Hampson, Medii Ævi Kalendarium ..., 2 vols. (London, 1841), i, p. 392 [Describes its incorrect foliation].
• Ker, Cat. MSS Anglo-Saxon, pp. 205-6, no. 161.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Julius A. xi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 7

FOLIATION: ff. 115-52

CONTENT:

William Fitz Stephen, life of St Thomas Becket.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

Belonged to the Grey Friars, Hereford; cf. inscr. on f. 115? Vita beati thome archiepiscopi et martiris etc. de communitate fratrum minorum herford [M.R. James, "Addendum to the Library of the Grey Friars of Hereford", Collectanea Franciscana, i, ed. A.G. Little, M.R. James and H.M. Bannister (British Soc. of Franciscan Studies, v, 1914), pp. 154-5, at 155.]

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MS British Library Cotton Julius A. xi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 7.

FOLIATION: ff. 115-152^v.

CONTENT:

William FitzStephen, clerk of Thomas Becket, Life of Thomas Becket.

Incomplete, wanting the Prologue and chapter 1.

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DATING: The Life was composed c. 1172-4; this copy was made in the late 12th or early 13th century.

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• BL, MS Lansdowne 398, ff. 1-42^v.
• Lambeth Palace Library, MS 138, ff. 205-212^v.
• Bodl., MS Douce 287, ff. 1-36^v.
• Bodl., MS James 10 (S.C. 3847), p. 70 (excerpts from Jul. A. xi by Richard James).
• Hereford Cathedral, MS O. iv. 14, ff. 199-223^r.
• and see Hardy, Descriptive Cat., II, pp. 330-1.

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PRINTED:

• Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Varii..., ed. J. Sparke (London, 1723), pt. 2, pp. 1-92.
• Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury..., ed. J.C. Robertson, 7 vols. (Rolls Ser., 67, 1875-85), III, pp. 1-154, at 14-54. [Text collated with Jul. A. xi.] English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I, ed. R.C. van Caenegem, II (Selden Soc., cvii, 1991, pp. 435-46. [Excerpt, comprising chapters 41-61; with an Engl. transl.]

LITERATURE:

• Hardy, Descriptive Cat., II, pp. 330-3, no. 418. M. Cheney, "William FitzStephen and his Life of Archbishop Thomas", in Church and Government in the Middle Ages. Essays presented to C.R. Cheney..., ed. C.N.L. Brooke, D.E. Luscombe, G.H. Martin and Dorothy Owen (Cambridge, 1976), pp. 139-56, at 148-51.

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