Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contents (13th cent.) and at the top of f. 3 (14th cent.) is inscribed “ Liber sancte Marie de Nouo Burgo,” sc. Newburgh Priory, co. York, of which house the author was a canon. The following names of owners also occur:—John Wells, 16th cent. (f. 2);—[Sir] Henry Spelman, “ empt. 16 Aug. 1633, precium 16s.” (f. 2 b);—[Sir] Eoger Twysden (inside the cover). At the date of Hearne’s edition the MS. belonged to Sir Thomas Sebright, Bart, {oh, 1736). Small Folio. 63. The Chronicle of Walter Hemingburgh {al. Hemingford, al. Walter de Gisburne), from the Conquest to 1312, in Latin. The first leaf has been cut out; the second begins with the words “ Normannie clam direxit ” (ed. Hamilton, vol. i. p. 6). Ends “ terra siluit et quievit ” {ibid., vol. ii. p. 296). After the history are three appendices, one entitled “ Eegna Britannie sibi deinceps succe- dentia,” giving a list of the successive governments of England, and a description of the seven kingdoms of the Heptarchy (f. 177) ; the second, “ de episcopis maioris Britannie sive Anglie et eorum sedibus positis et translatis ” (ff. 178-180) ; the third, a list of the nine principal rivers of England (f. 180 b). Colophon, “ Scrip turn manu mea Eogeri Dalyson olim hie scholastici gremialis,” 1533 (? Eoger Dallison, Fellow of St. John’s Coll., Cambridge, 1523, Canon of Lincoln 1554, oh. 1566). On the fiy-leaf (f. 1 b) is an index to the beginnings of reigns, and in a later hand the title “ Gualteri Hemyngford canonic! Gisburnensis Historia Eegum Anglorum a Gulielmo I. usque ad annum 6 Edw. II., viz. ab an. 1066 ad an. 1312.” The Chronicle has been edited by Gale (1687), with completion by Hearne (1731), and by H. C. Hamilton (English Historical Society, 1848), but without mention of this MS. Vellum; ff. 180. a.d. 1533. With titles and initials of chapters in red. On f. 1 b is the inscription (16th cent.) “Edm. Hayes Einptus apud Windsor novam ”; and on f. 2 is the name of Sir Henry Spelman, which is repeated on the inside of the cover with the addition “ precium xx.” Quarto. 64. The Polychronicon of Eanulph Higden, in seven books, continued to 1377. No title, the first leaf of the index (which precedes the text) and the first two leaves of the text [from “ Post praeclaros artium scriptores ” to “ veritas non vacillet,” ed. Babington and Lumby, Eolls Series, vol. i. p. 16] being cut out and supplied in a hand of the 16th cent. The text, after the Prologue, begins (f. 12 b) “ Ex senatus consulto,” and the sixth book ends (f. 201) “ manus ei dederunt.” The seventh book is in 51 chapters ; the continuation from 1342 begins in the middle of ch. 46 (f. 239 b), “ die S. Nicholai
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