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This volume in the Rolls Series, published in 1858, includes three
of the most important sources for the life of Edward the Confessor.
The Vita AEdwardi was written c.1067 and was used as a source by
notable chroniclers such as William of Malmesbury and Ailred of
Rievaulx. The author declares his purpose in honouring Queen Edith,
and the Godwin family are given prominence alongside Edward. Ailred
completed a life of Edward for the translation of his relics in
1163, and the Vita Beati is 'a sort of abridged versification',
produced for Henry VI c.1440. The Anglo-Norman poem, La Estoire de
Seint Aedward, now attributed to Matthew Paris, was written c.1245
and the editor (Henry Luard, 1825 91) includes a translation,
glossary and descriptions of the numerous illustrations at the head
of the manuscript. These three sources remain vital to our
understanding of the final years of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom
Published as part of the Rolls Series in 1861, these collected
letters date mainly from 1235 53, when, as bishop of Lincoln, their
author presided over the largest diocese in England. Both a
scientist and a theologian, Robert Grosseteste (c.1170 1253) boasts
what the medieval historian R. W. Southern describes as 'a rarely
paralleled breadth of intellectual interests'. His letters are
invaluably illustrative of the social conditions of the time. He
writes heatedly and earnestly on such topics as the laws concerning
illegitimacy, the condition of the Jews and the liberties of the
Church, with a violence of opinion that was 'balanced, indeed
prompted, by a deep concern for the souls of ordinary people'.
Henry Richards Luard (1825 91) puts Grosseteste's writing into
context in his preface, while useful summaries of each letter in
the contents list, and commentary provided in the side-notes, make
the Latin text accessible to modern readers.
Bartholomaeus de Cotton, the Cellarer of Norwich Cathedral Priory,
died in 1321/2. His most important work is the Historia Anglicana,
written in 1292, with a few later additions. Book I, the history of
Britain, taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth, was omitted by H. R.
Luard from this 1859 edition. Book II, the history of England, is
divided into two sections, from 455 to 1066, and from 1066 to the
end of the thirteenth century. The work is most valuable for the
period after 1264, as one of Cotton's sources, an anonymous Norwich
chronicle, contains material not found elsewhere, and he also
quotes from ecclesiastical and royal documents. Book III gives the
history of the bishops and archbishops of England, mostly taken
from other sources but with some useful material relating to the
Diocese of Norwich. A glossary is provided.
Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally
important collection of manuscripts, from early medieval
illustrated bibles to personal papers and administrative records of
the university. These volumes, first published between 1856 and
1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held
by the University Library. Edited by Henry Richards Luard
(1825-91), Registrary of the University, these volumes provide
detailed descriptions of the manuscript collection of the
University Library as it was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Information on the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the
manuscripts is provided, together with accounts of their contents,
to provide a practical and highly detailed guide to this
fascinating collection. Volume 1 describes classmarks Dd.1-Dd.15,
containing a wide variety of ecclesiastical manuscripts in English
and Latin, sixteenth-century English and Latin medical texts and
seventeenth-century commonplace books.
Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally
important collection of manuscripts, from early medieval
illustrated bibles to personal papers and administrative records of
the university. These volumes, first published between 1856 and
1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held
by the University Library. Edited by Henry Richards Luard
(1825-91), Registrary of the University, these volumes provide
detailed descriptions of the manuscript collection of the
University Library as it was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Information on the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the
manuscripts is provided, together with accounts of their contents,
to provide a practical and highly detailed guide to this
fascinating collection. Volume 2 describes classmarks Ee.1-Ff.4,
containing legal and historical treatises from the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries, collections of secular English verse and
medical catalogues of herbs from the fifteenth century.
Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally
important collection of manuscripts, from early medieval
illustrated bibles to personal papers and administrative records of
the university. These volumes, first published between 1856 and
1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held
by the University Library. Edited by Henry Richards Luard
(1825-91), Registrary of the University, these volumes provide
detailed descriptions of the manuscript collection of the
University Library as it was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Information on the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the
manuscripts is provided, together with accounts of their contents,
to provide a practical and highly detailed guide to this
fascinating collection. Volume 5 contains a catalogue of the
Baumgartner Papers and a catalogue of the Baker Manuscripts held in
the Library, with descriptions of manuscripts without a shelf-mark
dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally
important collection of manuscripts, from early medieval
illustrated bibles to personal papers and administrative records of
the university. These volumes, first published between 1856 and
1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held
by the University Library. Edited by Henry Richards Luard
(1825-91), Registrary of the University, these volumes provide
detailed descriptions of the manuscript collection of the
University Library as it was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Information on the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the
manuscripts is provided, together with accounts of their contents,
to provide a practical and highly detailed guide to this
fascinating collection. Volume 3 describes classmarks Gg.1-Kk.4,
containing collections of French and Italian poetry, Latin and
English theological tracts and legal year-books for the reigns of
Henry IV, Henry VI and Edward III.
Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally
important collection of manuscripts, from early medieval
illustrated bibles to personal papers and administrative records of
the university. These volumes, first published between 1856 and
1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held
by the University Library. Edited by Henry Richards Luard
(1825-91), Registrary of the University, these volumes provide
detailed descriptions of the manuscript collection of the
University Library as it was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Information on the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the
manuscripts is provided, together with accounts of their contents,
to provide a practical and highly detailed guide to this
fascinating collection. Volume 4 describes classmarks Ll.1-Oo.7,
containing ecclesiastical biographies from the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries, collections of legal statutes from the
fourteenth century, sixteenth-century magical texts and
fourteenth-century Latin translations of Avicenna's Canones.
Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally
important collection of manuscripts, from early medieval
illustrated bibles to personal papers and administrative records of
the university. These volumes, first published between 1856 and
1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held
by the University Library. Edited by Henry Richards Luard
(1825-91), Registrary of the University, these volumes provide
detailed descriptions of the manuscript collection of the
University Library as it was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Information on the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the
manuscripts is provided, together with accounts of their contents,
to provide a practical and highly detailed guide to this
fascinating collection. Volume 6 contains the index to the
catalogue, arranged alphabetically according to author or main
subject of a manuscript.
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