MS. Lat. hist. b. 1

Prophecies concerning Scotland

pr. in Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, ed. W. F. Skene p.117 (cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. of Romances I, 327).

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Brittanie

VII.4 ‘fauces illius’ - VIII.1 ‘vitabis hinc’ and IX.4 ‘Quicunque etenim’ - 6 ‘veniam donavit’ (ed. A. Griscom pp.394–8 and 438–42)

R. Tritonio, Vita Vincentii Laurei

Eighteenth-century transcript of passage relating to Laureo's nunciature to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1566/7; pp. 19–30 of Bologna edition, 1599 (cf. Scottish History Soc. vol.XXXVII, 1901, pp. cviii–cxix)

Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale,

bk. XXIX (here wrongly headed XXX) ch.69–90

Historical extracts

Five extracts based on Josephus, De Bello Judaico VI and VII

Leo X, Brief of 8 Dec. 1516, addressed to Henry VIII

See K. Major, 'Original Papal Documents in the Bodleian Library', B.L.R.III, 242–256, no.24

Deed of Wolfgang Dietrich, archbp. of Salzburg , collating Bartholomaeus Helvetius to the church of St. Mary, Veldkirchen, Carinthia (Feldkirchen in Kärnten), dated 27 Nov. 1589.

Letter from Sir Isaac Wake to Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania concerning the death of Count Mansfelt (copy)(formerly fols.51–53 of a volume)

Letter from Cardinal Reginald Pole to Ernest Wittelsbach, Archbishop of Salzburg , 27 May 1540.

Letter of credence from King Ferdinand I of Naples to Pope Alexander VI for his ambassador, the duke of Andria