Chronicon etc. — Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew.
| Provenance: | Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew. |
| Location: | British Library, London |
| Shelfmark: | Add. 39758 |
| Author/Title: | Chronicon etc. |
| Type of evidence: | i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership) |
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| Notes on evidence: | The chronicle was written by Walter of Whittlesey, monk of the house. Also inscribed 'Iste liber fuit quondam fratris Walteri de Wytelese', 'Walterus de Wytillesey' (fol. 1r, s. xiv). Inscribed by the Peterborough monk Roger Bird: 'Liber fratris Rogeri Bird ex dono domini Roberti Kirkton abbatis a.d. m ccccc xx testibus fratre Francisco Lecestre et Willelmo Browene' (fol. 229r). Robert Kirkton was abbot, c. 1496–1528. |
| Contents of the book: |
Hugh Candidus, Chronicle (to 1177) Robert Swaffham, Chronicle (to 1246) Walter of Whittelsey, Chronicle (to 1321) Abridgment of the Gesta Herewardi Papal and royal charters of Peterborough abbey Charters, including Magna Carta (1215, 1225) and Carta de Foresta John of Burgundy, Tractatus de morbo epidemiae 
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| Date: | s. xiv in |
| Ownership: | Lord Fitzwilliam in 1682. Sold Sotheby's 30 April 1918, lot 255. |