The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

O.4.32

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Shelfmark O.4.32
Manuscript Title

Nicholas Trevet, Annales sex regum Angliae etc
Alternative Title

Triveti Annales etc
James Number 1262
Century 14th
Physical Description

Double columns of 39 lines. In a fine hand of charter type. A rather rough border of ivy-leaf work on f.1 and f.103.
Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738.Marked A. 58. On f.1 Guilliaume Le Neve Clarencieux Roy d'Armes et chevaleir du Roy qui tire son origine de quatre principaux Barons de Flandres. Also on f.116b Gillielmus Neve Eques auratus constitutus et creatus per honoratiss. Regem Carolum primum.
Second Folio cest excommangement
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 32 x 21.5
Folio 116 ff.
Material Parchment
Language LatinMiddle French
Collation

18 28 (wants 4, 5)-158 (wants 7, 8 blank).
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.4.32/manifest.json
Online Since 12/10/2018

Contents

1. f.1 Triveti Annales
Por ce que nous sumes auisez des ceux qi sont persones en estudie.
-a lappostoille Johan le vint et second.
Genesis.
Le primer iour du siecle.
The lacuna of 2 leaves after f.11 is in the life of Samuel and David.
See Hardy Catalogue of Materials, III.349.
Ends f.101b (of Louis of Bavaria).
attreist molt des citees et villes a la subiection de lowys.
The rest of f.101b, and f.102, are blank.

2. f.103 Historia Expeditionis Ricardi I. in Hierosolymam
Lan del incarnacion nostre seignur ihesu crist mill' cent quatre vint et septisme apres que saladyn Soudan de damas auoit conquis.
Ends f.116b: et lalme dun chapellain leuesque et meisme la vision vist henri leuesque de Roncestre.

Hardy (II.523) says that this document "seems to have been excerpted from Hoveden and translated into French very closely."

Bibliography

Dean, R. J., 'The Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet's Anglo-Norman "Chronicles"', Medievalia et humanistica 14 (1962), 95-105

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