The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Four fly-leaves arranged for a table of contents:

1. Prophecy.
Prophecia merlini siluestris anglorum edwardo regi sancti nominis huius tercio reuelata fuit per spiritum sanctum sub testimonio duorum sanctorum.
Ex inde primo in quartum, de quarto in tercium de tercio in secundum.
Rotabitur pollex in oleo . Et catulis olim . quod opinio nostra tenebat.
f.1b Iam nichil esse uidens . tucius ista feram.
Prophetia quedam inuenta in Curia Romana
Gallorum leuitas germanos iustificabit (11 lines).
-cessabit gloria cleri.
f.1b Prophetia cuiusdam merlini de ybernia
Pro dolor non modicum quod tam tarde uenit filius regis ultra mare etc.
-angustias pacientur.
Annus ab incarnatione M^us. CC^us. XXX^us. IX^us. effluebat quando edwardus filius regis henrici primogenitus natus fuit. His genealogy to Noah
f.2 The Descendants of Noah's three sons down to Nengo the progenitor of the Wandali, Saxones, Bogauri, Targi

2. f.2b Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
Engelond is swiþe good . ich wene hit is lond best.
Ends f.163a
I wan þe seignorize : nere hi no so prout.
Collated by W. Aldis Wright, M.A. (Vice-Master), in the Rolls Series. In the Introduction (I. xliii) this MS. is described as belonging to the later recension of the poem, and as 'a careful copy of an earlier MS.'

3. f.159b A short Chronicle from Brutus, in French prose
Deuant la natiuite nostre seignur mil et deus cens ans brutus le fiz Silin vint en engleterre.
Ends f.163a
Apres li fuit edward sun fiz rey e corone a Westmoster et conquist tote la seignorize de Wales.

Greg, W. W., Facsimiles of Twelve Early English Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge (Oxford, 1913), no. 6

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