The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

In the beginning is a letter from C. H. Cooper to the Revd John Glover, Cambridge 5 Oct. 1860.
"It may interest you to know that I have succeeded in tracing some few particulars respecting George Willmer. He was in the high commission a justice of the peace for Middlesex, and dying 1626 was buried at Westham in Essex."

Attached to the fourth fly-leaf is a rather smaller leaf in a hand of cent. xiii: evidently belonging to the Chronicle at the end of the volume.
Puis de la desconfiture a dunbarre. Puis coment li roys ont pris tuz les cheuentains de eskoce . et puis par sa curteysie les deliura.
Ending. Puis coment le cunte datheles fust pris et serui de memes de iugement . sauue kil nestoyt mie traynee pur ceo kil clama estre du parente le roy.
In a hand of cent. xvi.
In y^e end off y^s pamphilett ys a certen Cronicle . looke wher y^er ys a threed fastened vppon a leaffe /ther y^tt begynneth ante cronicam sunt 32 mirabilia anglie.

I. In double columns of 48 lines with a border of beautiful pen-ornament.
f.1 Ci comence le prologe de la compilacion de set morteus pecches. Si ad treis parografs
Vidi bestiam de mari ascendentem habentem septem capita.
A ses trechers freres et sueres en Ihesu Crist e a tous i ceus e celis ki lirrunt cest escrit v denotement e de bon quer de autre lire lorunt saluz.
-guerreie mouz degenz e clers e lais ensemblement.
E ceo vous dirrai ci au comencement.
f.1b Isci comence le primer chapitre de la compilesoun des set morteus pecchez etc.
Fili mi peccasti ne adicias iterum, etc.
Pour ceo ke suel pecche en gecta angele hors du cel.
The treatment of the seven sins is followed by
f.28b de generaus medecines
Ending f.35a
De ceo nous en gard . ki en la pure virgine sil ensbra. Amen.
f.35a Isci comence li prologos de la compileison. de seinte penance ki paront de penance e de confession si ad deus perografs .
Confitemini domino quoniam bonus etc.
A ses chers freres e soers en ihesu crist serfs e anceles etc.
-e en la autre uie sa glorie ou sa beneicon. Amen.
f.35b Isci comence li primer chapitre de la primere partie de la compileison de seinte penance etc.
Cepit Ihesus predicare et dicere penitenciam aggite.
Si com dit seint augustin.
Part ix (of purgatory) ends f.111b.
E nous doint la ioie du ciel quant nous serrons finez. Amen.
Isci comence le prologo de la compileison des dis commandemenz . si ad treis perografs.
Hic est liber mandatorum dei etc.
Ends f.120b ke nus regnum oue lui en la uie pardurable. Amen.
f.120b Isci comence li prologe de la uie de gent de religion
Recti diligunt te. A ses duz chers freres e suers etc.
Ends f.156b with a Contemplacioun deuant complie.
e sua en tel maneres ke les guttes de sang deguterent de sa beneite face deske en terre.
Evidently unfinished.
f.156b Isci comencent les merueilies de engletere
Primum est chedirhole. Secundum Rolondrich.
Tertium Albus equus cum pullo suo.
Ending f.157b
Tricesimum secundum est lapis octo miliarium a mari . in quo est foramen in sublimi tolle . quod mare crescente impletur aqua . decrescente aqua non comparet.
Here begynnith a cronicle boke (xvi).
f.158 Isci comence le liuere de reis de Brut
Deuant la natiuite de nostre seignur mil deus cenz ans Brutus le fiz siluii ou ynogen sa femme.
Ends 198a E a treis semeines apres la pasche si prist le roy la vile deberewyk par mer e par tere mes de ver la mier i auoit granz genz morz e iloec fu troue grant auer . e granz biens . e li roy en chasa par force les escoz ver les wastins.
All after f.198a is blank.

Hardy, Materials, III. p.251, says of this Chronicle:
This contains a brief abridgment of Geoffrey of Monmouth to Cassibelaunus. The account of the Heptarchy with the succession of Kings to the year 1121 is taken from William of Malmesbury. The portion relating to the Dukes of Normandy is compiled from Henry of Huntingdon, Ailred of Rievaulx, and Ralph Niger. From 1121 to 1135 it is from Henry of Huntingdon: from 1135 to 1198 is from Ralph de Diceto and Ralph Niger and his continuator: from 1198 to 1200 is from Roger Hoveden; from 1200 to 1297 is taken from the same source as that followed by Trivet. The substance of the remainder, or rather, the titles of chapters to the capture of the Earl of Athol, is nearly as in Langtoft.

Allen, H. E., Wynkyn de Worde and a second French compilation from the 'Ancren riwle' with a description of the first (Trinity Coll. Camb. MS 883), in Essays and studies in honor of Carleton Brown (New York, 1940), 182-219.

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Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

Keynes, S., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Other Items of Related Interest in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 18 (Binghampton, NY, 1992), no. 30 + pl. XXX.

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Smallwood, T. M., 'An Unpublished Early Account of Bruce's Murder of Comyn', The Scottish Historical Review 54 (1975), 1-10.

Trethewey, W. H., The French text of the Ancrene Riwle, edited from Trinity College Cambridge MS. R.14.7 with variants from Bibliotheque Nationale MS. F.Fr.6276 and MS. Bodley 90, Early English Text Society 240 (London, 1958)

Tyson, D. B., 'Handlist of MSS containing the French Prose Brut Chronicle', Scriptorium 48 (1994), 333-44.

Tyson, D. B., 'An Early French Prose History of the Kings of England', Romania 96 (1975), 1-26.