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Matthew Paris, Chronica; Kalendar of St Albans — St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.


Provenance: St Albans, Hertfordshire. Benedictine abbey of St Alban.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Claudius D.vi
Author/Title: Matthew Paris, Chronica; Kalendar of St Albans
Type of evidence: cs: evidence from contents and from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Contains writing in the hand of Matthew Paris (see R. Vaughan, 'The handwriting of Matthew Paris', Transactions of the Cambridge Bib. Soc. 1 (1953) 390–92).

Kalendar for St Albans use. (See Wormald, English Benedictine Kalendars after 1100, p. 32.)

Fol. 12 is bound separately with Cotton Julius D.vii fols. 50–53.

Royal 14 C.i fols. 1–19 formed part of this manuscript.

Date: s. xiv in