Notarial copy of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), issued at Hereford Cathedral; Charters of Kings Edward I (r. 1272–1307) and Henry III (r. 1216–72) of England for the Abingdon Abbey; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle ; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum ; Award of Norham, addressed to the abbot and convent of Battle; Liber terrarum of Abingdon Abbey and other memoranda , including Old English boundary–clauses; Abingdon indices, notes and letters
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HUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE
Hugo de Sancto Victore
Hugo de Sancto Victore (1096?-1141)
Hugues de Saint-Victor
Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
Magistro Hugone
Hugo
Hugonis de Sancto-Victore
Hugues de Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Hug, de Sant Víctor, 1096-1141
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Hugo de Sancto Victore, 1096?-1141
Hugo van Sint-Victor
Author: Hugo, de Sancto Victore
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This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were
produced separately in England during the 12th and 13th centuries.
The first part (ff. 4-17), written in the 2nd half of the 12th
century, contains the Chronicle of the theologian Hugh of
Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). The second part (ff. 18-103),
written in the 1st half of the 13th century, contains the Gesta
Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the Kings of England) by William of
Malmesbury (b. c. 1090, d. 1142), historian, man of letters, and
Benedictine monk. The third part (ff. 105-202), written in the 2nd
half of the 12th century and late 13th century, contains the Liber
Terrarum (Book of the Lands) of the Benedictine abbey of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, Abingdon. The manuscript ends with a section
(ff. 204-209) of indices, notes and letters that were added to the
3rd part in the 1st half of the 17th century by Sir Simonds
D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), first baronet, diarist and antiquary.
The separate parts were joined together in the library of Sir
Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and
politician. The manuscript’s final flyleaf (f. [210]recto)
appears to contain previously unnoticed excerpts from an
unidentified late medieval morality play – a ‘genre’ of which
only five examples survive in Middle English - or dream allegory.
Contents: ff. 4r-12r: Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141),
Chronicle . ff. 12v-17v: Annalistic chronicle, AD 1-438, 629-1178
(final entry 1171), with entries added in a 12th- or 13th-century
hand on ff. 17r-17v; in 14th- or 15th-century hand on f. 15r. ff.
18r-102v: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum . ff.
102v-103r: Award of Norham, 5-6 June 1291 (attested by William
March, Treasurer, 9 July 1291), addressed to the abbot and
community of Battle, rubricated ‘Compositio inter dominum
Edwardum regem Anglie et magnates Scotie’, written in Latin and
Anglo-Norman c. 1291. ff. 105r-202r: Liber Terrarum (Book of the
Lands) [Cartulary], of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin,
Abingdon [including Old English boundary clauses]; features various
later additions, see the separate description for Cotton MS
Claudius E IX, ff. 105-202. The manuscript contains a number of
later additions:f. 203r: Charter of Edward I, king of England (r.
1272-1307), for the abbot and community of Abingdon, York, 4
October 1301. f. 203r: Charter of Henry III, king of England (r.
1216-72), for Abbot William (r. 1256-60) and the community of
Abingdon, entitled ‘De warennis in comitatibus Berk’, Oxon’
et Glocestr’’, 20 March 1257.f. 103r: A Latin verse, 'veritas
liberavit nos', added in the (?) 14th century. f. [210]recto: Two
excerpts from a morality play or allegorical work, as suggested by
the second quotation, on money, written in Middle English in the
late 15th or early 16th century: ‘Here I conclude and make my
ende / he þat lackes Money wanteth a frende’; ‘Money maketh
many men Mad quod Might’.f. 195r: A late medieval or early modern
parchment leaf, with ?16th-century note in the upper margin of f.
195r.f. 104r: A title, 'Historia Abbatiae Abbendonensis de rebus &
terries eiusdem ecclesiae duobus distincta Libris', added in the
17th century. ff. 204r-209v: Indices for and notes on Abingdon’s
Liber Terrarum , added in several hands, primarily that of Sir
Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1650); this section also includes two letters
to Sir Simonds D’Ewes, one written by Roger Dodsworth (d. 1654),
dated 16 January 1645/6 (sealed); the other by John Rawson,
undated. f. 2r: Title-page to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, The Works both
Morall and Natural , trans. by T. Lodge (London, 1614), added in
the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). f. 3r: A
table of contents added by the so-called ‘Stylized Hand’, a
scribe working for Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.[ff. 1v, 2v, 3v, 104v,
185r, 195v, and 203v are blank]. Decoration:See the separate
description of Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff. 1, 4-17, 18-103,
105-202, 204-209, 203.
