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
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.
