Known as 'Codex Wintoniensis', this 12th-century manuscript
contains the St Swithun or Winchester Cartulary, a collection of
charters pertaining to the cathedral priory of Winchester (Old
Minster) written in Latin and Old English. The manuscript may have
been in the hands of the Benedictine monk and historian Thomas
Rudborne (fl. 1447-1454), see Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing
in England (1996), p. 494 (n. 1). Contents: ff. 2v-120v: The 'St
Swithun Cartulary' preceded by a list of tituli (f. 2v). This
manuscript contains two additions: ff. 1r-1v: A fragment leaf from
a different manuscript used as pastedown in the original binding
containing parts of the Verba seniorum (The Sayings of the Elders),
Book 5 of the Vitas Patrum (The Lives of the Fathers) in an ?
8th-century hand; this leaf as well as f. 121 were part of a
different volume probably written in Italy (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon
Manuscripts (2014), p. 216.) ff. 121r-121v: Another fragment leaf
containing parts of Verba seniorum . Decoration:Numerous large
initials in red, green and yellow, many with penwork and foliate
decoration in red, green and yellow (e.g. ff. 9r, 11v, 22v, 27v,
45r). Rubrics in red.
