London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius E IV

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  • Latin
  • Old French
Title
  • Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione ; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
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  • Preferred form
    • Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
    Original form
    • Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
    Other form
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • S. Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
    • Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
    • ISIDORE
    • Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
    • Isidorus
    • Isidore de Séville
    • Isidori Hispalensis
    • Isidori
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
    • Isidore (Saint), de Séville
    • Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
    • Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
    • Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
    • Isidorus van Sevilla
    • Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
    • Isidore
    • Isidore of Seville
    • Isodore of Seville
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
    • Isidorus<Hispalensis>
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint)
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
    • Divus Isidorus
    • Hisidorus Hispalensis
    • S. Isidorus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis episcopus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus : Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus Episcopus Hispalensis
    • Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis>
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
    • Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
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    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis
    • Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • BEDA VENERABILIS
    • BEDA
    • Beda
    • BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
    • Bède
    • S. Beda venerabilis
    • Venerabilis Bedae
    • Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
    • S. Beda Venerabilis
    • Venerabilis BEDE
    • Bede
    • Bedae
    • Bedae venerabilis
    • Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
    • Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
    • Beda el Venerable, Santo
    • Beda Venerabilis 672-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Author: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Bede the Venerable
    • Bede the Venerable (attrib.)
    • Bede (673/4–735)
    • The Venerable Bede
    • Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
    • Beda<Venerabilis>
    • Bède le Vénérable
    • Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
    • Beda Scotus
    • Beda Venerabilis, ca.673-735
    • Beda Venerabilis, ca. 673-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
    • Beda, Venerabilis, 672-735
    • Beda <Venerabilis>
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736 > , co-autor
    • Beda Venerabilis - 673 - 735 - auteur
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    • Denys le Petit (0497?-0545?)
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    • Dionysius Exiguus, c 470-c 540
    Other form
    • DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS
    • Dionysius Exiguus
    • Dionysius Exiguus (0497?-0545?)
    • Denis le Petit
    • Denys le Petit (0497?-0545?)
    • Dionysii Exigui
    • Denys le Petit 0497?-0545?
    • Dionysius Exiguus, d. ca. 540
    • Dionysius Exiguus, m. ca. 540
    • Author: Dionysius, Exiguus
    • Dionysius, Exiguus, 470-540
    • Denys Le Petit
    • Dionysius <Exiguus>
    • Dionysius Exiguus - 470 - 540 - auteur
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    • Robertus Herefordiensis (10..-1095)
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    • Robert the Lotharingian, d 1095, Bishop of Hereford
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    • Abbon de Fleury (saint, 0940?-1004)
    Original form
    • Abbo of Fleury, c 945-1004, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey
    Other form
    • Abbo Floriacensis
    • Abbo Floriacensis (saint ; 0940?-1004)
    • Abbon de Fleury (saint ; 0940?-1004)
    • Author: Abbo, Floriacensis
    • Abbo of Fleury
    • Abbo of Fleury OSB
    • Abbo, of Fleury, Saint, approximately 945-1004
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    • Helpéric d'Auxerre
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    • Helperic of Auxerre, fl 9th century
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    • Helpéric d'Auxerre
    • Helpericus Autissiodorensis
    • Helpericus Altissiodorensis, 09..-09..?
    • Helpericus Altissiodorensis, ca. 9th cent.
    • Helpericus Altissiodorensis, ca. s. IX
    • Helpericus Altissiodorensis ca. 9. Jh.
    • Author: Helpericus, Altissiodorensis
    • Helperic of Auxerre, monk of Granval
    • Helpericus
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    • Walcher of Malvern (10..-1135)
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    • Walcher of Malvern, d 1135, Prior of Malvern
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Description
  • Contents:ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported foundation charter of King Cenwulf of Mercia for Winchcombe abbey, 9 November 811 (ff. 13v-14r); a letter of King Cenwulf of Mercia to Pope Leo III on the rights of the see of Canterbury (ff. 14r-v); a letter of Pope Leo III to King Ceowulf of Mercia on the privileges granted to Archbishop Æthelheard of Canterbury (between 793-805), imperfect (f. 14v); a bull of Pope Paschal I (between 817-824) for King Cenwulf of Mercia and his heirs, confirming his monasteries and possessions (f. 15r).ff. 27v-29v: Additions written by several late 13th-century and 14th-centuy English hands: two bulls of Pope Boniface VIII (between 1295-1303) (ff. 27v-28r) followed by the endorsement of the bull (f. 28r); a letter of Robert Winchesley, archbishop of Canterbury (between 1294-1313) forwarding Boniface's bull for publication, 10 December 1296 (f. 28r); a letter of King Edward I of England (reigned 1272-1307) (f. 28r); the award of Norham addressed to the abbot and convent of Winchcombe, attested by William March, treasurer, 9 July 1291, written mainly in Old French (f. 28v); a memorandum that Edward I adjudged the kingdom of Scotland to John Balliol (November 1292) (f. 29r); a bull of Pope Boniface VIII to Edward I, concerning the peace with the king of France, Lateran Palace, 19 February 1295 (f. 29r); a letter of Edward I to the abbot of Winchcombe, expelling alien religious, Westminster, 17 November 1295 (f. 29r); the abdication of John, king of Scots (between 1292-96), to Edward I, Brechin, 10 July 1296, written in Old French (f. 29v); a letter of Queen Margaret to the abbot of Winchcombe, announcing the birth of Thomas of Brotherton, 1 June 1300 (f. 29v). ff. 29v-30r: Extract from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (book 13, chapter 11), prefacing a rota of the twelve winds f. 30v: Added by a 14th-century English hand, a memorandum that Henry of Lancaster paid homage to King Edward II of England (1307-27) at Berwick for the earldoms of Lancaster, Leicester, Derby (de Ferrers), Lincoln and Salisbury, following the death of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (5 February 1311), dated 1310.ff. 30v-31v: A concordance table of years of the Great Easter Cycle (AD 1064-1577), arranged in 10 columns.ff. 32r-33r: A table of the Great Easter Cycle (AD 1086-1599) with accompanying tables. f. 33v: A computistical table.f. 34r: A table describing the cycle of the Moon. f. 34v: A rota of the months with two sets of verse: the first is entitled 'Legitima cunctorum iiii ieiunia Christianorum' and the second is entitled: 'De vii embolisimis cicli xixnalis'.ff. 35r-40v: A calendar with some metrical entries. ff. 41r-v: A table of the lunar letters preceded by a preface (f. 41r).f. 42r: Computus material.ff. 43r-44r: Added by a 14th-century English hand, a memorandum of the foundation of Gloucester College, Oxford by a Benedictine General Chapter at Abingdon, 11 July 1290, confirmed at Salisbury, 11 September 1291. ff. 44v-45v: Additions written by a 14th-century English hand, a papal bull concerning the clergy in France, undated (f. 44v); a letter of Archbishop Boniface of Canterbury (from 1245-70), addressed to the Holy Church, concerning the vacancy in the see of Worcester, 28 July 1268 (f. 45r); a letter of Archbishop Robert Winchelsey of Canterbury (from 1294-1313), addressed to the prior of Worcester, concerning the vacancy in the see of Worcester, 13 March 1301/2 (f. 45v); a decree of Archbishop Robert Winchelsey of Canterbury, addressed to the vicar of the bishop of Worcester, concerning the archbishop of York, 7 May 1309 (f. 45v). ff. 46r-125r: Bede, De temporum ratione, preceded by the preface (ff. 46r-v) and capitula (ff. 46v-47r), ending at chapter 65 (f. 95r) and followed by Bede, Epistola ad Wicthedum presbiterum (ff. 95r-97v); Bede's De temporum ratione continues from chapter 66 to the end (ff. 97v-125r). ff. 125r-131v: Bede, De natura rerum preceded by a verse-preface (f. 125r). ff. 131v-134v: Bede, De temporibus, imperfect, ending at chapter 15. ff. 134v-135r: Computus material consisting of two anonymous texts, one untitled (f. 134v) and the other titled De ratione unciarum, akin to Bede's De temporum ratione (ff. 134v-135r). ff. 136r-138r: Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Bishop Petronius. ff. 140r-142v: Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, followed by five lines of verse (f. 142v). ff. 144v-161r: Helperic of Auxerre, De computo preceded by a preface (ff. 144v-145r) and capitula (ff. 145r-v). ff. 161r: A 12th-century added note on Jerusalem. ff. 162r-176r: Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de chronica Mariani, preceded by capitula (f. 162r). ff. 176r-178v: Walcher of Malvern, De lunationibus, beginning imperfectly, due to damage. ff. 179r-180r: Abbo of Fleury, Computus, including a set of acrostic verses (f. 180r). f. 181r: A computistical table.ff. 182r-183v: A geographical compendium.f. 185v: 15th-century and early-modern notes. ff. 186r-v: An index written by an early 14th-century.f. 187r: Added 15th-century notes.The original core of this manuscript is ff. 46–181 (perhaps including as its endleaves ff. 43–45 and ff. 182–187), to which ff. 1–42 is a very early addition.Decoration:Red, green, purple, ochre and blue initials. Red rubrics. Roman numerals and highlighted letters in red. KL monograms in red, green, purple and blue (ff. 35r-40v). Rota of the twelve winds, each comprising a human head, with ‘ASIA, EUROPA, AFFRICA’ at the centre of the wheel, decorated in red, green and ochre (f. 30r). Computistical tables comprising architectural arcades, decorated in red, green and purple (ff. 30v-31v, 33v-34r, 42r). Tables, decorated in red, green and purple (ff. 32r-33r, 41v). A wheel, outlined in red, green and purple (f. 34v). A full-page border in purple, green and red (f. 41r). Large arabesque initials outlined in various colours (ff. 46r-181r).An added 12th-century pen-drawn map of Jerusalem (f. 143r).
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