Beauchief obituary calendar; Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu ; an epitome of Symeon of Durham's Historia Regum ; De VII Mirabilibus Mundi ; Historia Brittonum ; hagiography and lections composed by Eadmer of Canterbury, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, and others; imperfect copies of Vita Beati Birini Episcopi and Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi ; hagiography relating to Benedict of Nursia, Mary Magdalene and the account of the vision of the monk of Eynsham
Contents:f. 3r: a medieval leaf with an early modern table of
contents. ff. 4r-27v: an obituary calendar from the
Premonstratensian abbey at Beauchief, compiled between the mid-13th
century and the 1st half of the 16th century. ff. 28r-58v:
historical texts copied in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century in
northern England, including Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel
Normannorum adventu (The Book About the First Arrival of the Saxons
or Normans); an epitome of Symeon of Durham's Historia Regum (The
History of Kings); De VII Mirabilibus Mundi (About the Seven
Wonders of the World); Historia Brittonum (The History of the
Britons). ff. 59r-120v: hagiography and lections composed by Eadmer
of Canterbury, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, and others, copied in the
1st half of the 12th century and the mid-12th century. ff.
121r-128v: imperfect copies of Vita beati Birini episcopi and
Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita sancti Æthelwoldi , copied in the
1st quarter of the 12th century. These folios originally formed the
endleaves of this manuscript contained in ff. 59r-120v and ff.
129r-209v. ff. 129r-209v: hagiography relating to Benedict of
Nursia, Mary Magdalene and the account of the vision of the monk of
Eynsham, copied between the 1st half of the 12th century and 1st
half of the 14th century. The former f. 1, which contained a leaf
from a mid-14th-century Psalter, has been removed and now forms the
lower half of Royal MS 13 D I*, f. 7. Decoration:See separate
parts.
