MS. Bodl. Rolls 15
Summary Catalogue no.: 2976
Contents
Chronicle of England from Brutus to 1429.
Incipit: Ab origine mundi .ij. millibus iiijº. iiijxx. x. annis Brutus venit in terram hanc
Explicit: H. sexto iusta probatis
Followed by a list of kings from Kyngilsus to Henry V, with the length of their reigns and places of burial.
Followed by hexameters:
Rubric: Versus de quibusdam comitatibus Anglie
Incipit: Illa quidem longe
Explicit: Testis Hely, formosa situ, Rowcestria visu
Followed by a fifteenth-century note on the successive races of England, ending ‘quod Colbrond’
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: roll
Support: parchment
Dimensions (roll): c. 2560 × 155 mm.
Layout
1 col., c. 102 mm. wide
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Anno domini. ml.cccc. quadragesimo septimo’, at head, in the scribe's hand.
Thomas Kerry, clerk of the Privy Seal.
Presented by him in 1604.
Record Sources
Description adapted (August 2019) from the following sources:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 128 [physical description, date, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 911 [decoration]
Summary Catalogue (1905) [contents, provenance]
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.