Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Images for MS. 40
Medieval English Chronicles
cover
cover--binding.
f. 1r
f. 1r--16th-century title page with sketched pair of intertwined dragons; name of J. Sotheby at top-left.
f. 3r
f. 3r--beginning of Cronice martini (Hand #1) with diagrams made of circles.
f. 9v
f. 9v--rubric marking end of Martin's text at bottom of column 2.
f. 10v
f. 10v--end of Cronice martini with Pope Johannes XXIII.
f. 13r
f. 13r--beginning of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia britonum (Hand #2).
f. 25v
f. 25v--leaf with annotations and corrections.
f. 38r
f. 38r--beginning of Methodius (Hand #3) with decorated capital I.
f. 39r
f. 39r--beginning of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica back in Hand #3.
f. 42r
f. 42r--beginning of Anonymous Chronicle with more circle diagrams.
f. 44r
f. 44r--genealogy of King Arthur.
f. 46v
f. 46v--Hand #5 at bottom of col. 2.
f. 47v
f. 47v--end of manuscript.