London. British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A II

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A II
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Language
  • Latin
  • Anglo-Norman
Title
  • John Somer, Chronicle ; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle ; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli ; an untitled Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut; a summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs
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Description
  • Contents: ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle titled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’. f. 7v: computistical tables. ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle', beginning: 'Quoniam de situ et institutione loci nostri ecclesie scilicet beati Martini de Bello aliquanta iam memorie commendata ad posterorum monimentum nobis in promptu habentur', ending: ‘Pro mortuis, abbas nichil cum aliis dabit’. ff. 22r-130v: Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli (The Book About Battle Church) known as the 'Long Chronicle', beginning: 'Anno ab incarnatione Domini mlxvi dux Normannorum nobilissimus Willelmus cum manu valida pugnatorum in Angliam transnavigavit'. ff. 131r-142r: An untitled Chronicle to AD 1292, partially illegible, beginning: 'in Vallia Iuor filius Tad Walad regnavit super Wallenses xlix annis'. ff. 142r-144r: An untitled summary of the Brut, beginning: '[B]rutus entra la terre que ore est apele Engelterre', and ending: 'il perira de suoame mort'. ff. 144r-144v: A summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs.[ff. i, 1v are blank].Decoration:See Cotton MS Domitian A II, ff. 2-7, 8-130 and 131-144.
Place
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    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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    • Battle Abbey (United Kingdom)
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    • Battle, England
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