Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine).
ff. 9v-28r: Possidius (fl. 5th century), Vita Sancti Augustini
(Life of St Augustine). ff. 28r-29v: A list of St Augustine's
works. ff. 30r-30v: Historia translationis corporis Sancti
Augustini (History of the translation of St Augustine's body). ff.
30v-31v: Vita Sancti Eadfridi (Life of St Eadfrid). ff. 31v-61r:
Bede the Venerable (b. c 673, d. 735), Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life
of St Cuthbert). ff. 61r-88r: Extracts from Bede, Historia
ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the
English People), beginning with Book 4, chapter 8:' Erat in eodem
monasterio puer trium circiter'. ff. 88r-96v: Extracts from
Anonymous, Excerpta de vita et miraculis Sancti Cuthberti (Excerpts
from the Life and Miracles of St Cuthbert). . f. 96v: A list of the
bishops of Lindisfarne, Chester and Durham. ff. 96v-143r: Adomnán
(d. 704), abbot of Iona, Vita Sancti Columbe (Life of St Columba).
ff. 143r-143v: Extracts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica , related
to St Columba and St Oswald, beginning with Book 5, chapter 9:
'Erat autem Columba primus doctor fidei Christiane transmontanis
Pictis ad aquilonem'. ff. 143v-150r: Extracts from Bede, Historia
ecclesiastica , related to St Oswald, from Book 3, beginning:
'Siquidem anno Incarnationis dominicae quingentesimo sexagesimo
quinto'. ff. 150r-152v: Extracts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica
related to St Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, from Book 3, beginning:
'Est insula que vocatur Hii'. ff. 153r-186r: Vita Sancti Edwardi
confessoris (Life of St Edward the Confessor), preceded by a
prologue (ff. 153r-v) and by the dedicatory epistle to Lawrence,
abbot of Westminster (ff. 153v-154r), beginning of the prologue:
'Multus veterum studio fuisse didicimus'; beginning of the epistle:
'Dilecto ac diligendo et intimis visceribus amplectendo venerabili
Domino et patri Laurentii'; beginning of the text: 'Gloriosi ac deo
dilecti Regis Edwardi'. ff. 186r-186v: A fragment of Aelred of
Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167), abbot of Rievaulx, De genealogia regum
Anglorum (On the Genealogy of the English Kings), containing only a
part of the prefatory epistle, beginning: 'Illustrissimo duci
Normannorum et Aquitanorum et comiti Andegavensium Henrio', ending:
' illam imiteris ut ista consequi merearis. Adieci etiam de
genealogia tua libellum unum quo potentissi[...]'. Decoration:Large
initials in red or green, some with penwork and penflourished
decoration, a few with the decoration in the other colour, one with
a face, probably added later (f. 9v).
