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
Agent
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.
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
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).
