Vita Caroli Magni ; Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi ; Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni ; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum ; Visio Eucherii ; Libellus de Gestis Anglorum ; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum ; Suger of Saint-Denis, Gesta Lodovici
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: Vita Caroli Magni (Life of Charlemagne),
beginning ‘Incipit prologus in vita Karoli magni gloriosi
Augusti’. ff. 28r-46r: Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et
Rolandi (The History of Charlemagne and Roland), beginning
‘Prefatio in epistola Tulpini archiepiscopi’. ff. 46r-54v:
Einhard (b. c. 770, d. 840), Vita Karoli Magni (Life of
Charlemagne), beginning: ‘Vita Karoli magni imperatoris ab
Einardo abbate capellano suo descripta’. ff. 54v-55v: Excerpts
from Gesta Regum Anglorum (The Deeds of the Kings of England) by
William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1080, d. 1143). ff. 55v-106v: Visio
Eucherii (The Vision of St Eucherius), a vision of the damnation of
Charles Martel (r. 718-741) as seen by St. Eucherius of Orléans
(b. c. 687, d. 449), beginning: ‘Karolus princeps Pipini regis
pater’. ff. 106v-114r: Libellus de Gestis Anglorum (The Little
Book on the Deeds of the English) containing extracts from Books
1-3 of Gesta Regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury and various
other texts. ff. 114r-150v: William of Jumièges (d. c. 1087),
Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy),
beginning: ‘[E]x quo Francorum gens’. ff. 150v-152v: Suger of
Saint-Denis (b. c. 1081. d. 1151), Gesta Lodovici (The Deeds of
King Louis VI), beginning: ‘Anno dominice incarnationis M o C o V
o ’. ff. 152v-155r: List by provinces of the archbishops and
bishops who attended the Lateran Council of 1179, beginning:
‘Anno ab incarnatione domini M o LXX o IX o ’. Decoration: 3
large green initial with penwork decoration in blue and red (ff.
11v, 91v and 128v). 1 large blue initial with penwork decoration in
green and red (f. 137r). Large and medium initials in blue, green
or red with penwork decoration in the other colour. Small initials
in blue, green or red. Rubrics in red; once in blue (f. 105r). Blue
headers in the lower margins of f. 119v and f. 122v. Roman numerals
in red. Line-fillers in red. Paraph markers highlighted in red, or
in blue or red ink.
