| Order Number | CCA-DCc/AddMs/68 |
| Title | Guide to Rome |
| PreviousNumbers | Z.8.33 |
| Date | 1477 |
| Description | Writer: Brewyn, William
"This Manuscript was writ by Willm. Brewyn Chantry Priest at Saint Thomas Shrine in Christ-Church in Canterbury. Ano. 1477."
ff1-94v. List of relics at Rome, distances between towns on way to Rome, from Calais, anecdotes of martyrs, notes about churches in Rome etc
ff95r-96v. List of corpora sanctorum, relics, etc in Canterbury Cathedral.
f96v. Note on jubilee of St Thomas 1470 and that "Willelmus Brewyn capellanus ... tunc temporis fuit ibi s. in festo translacionis eiusdem sancti Thome martiris et scripsit hec".
ff97r-101v. Religious verse in English starting: These men than toke stonys in hast / Rygth gret and sharp and also rovnd / Vpon Stevyn wyth streyngthe yei cast
Formerly owned by Sir Henry Ingilby of Ripley Castle, Yorks, see HMC VI. See DCc/CA/17, p117: the Dean and Chapter decided to buy the book at its meeting on 29 Jan 1921. |
| Extent | Parchment book, 101ff, 5.5x4in, bound in rough sheepskin |
| Physical Description | Parchment book, 101ff, 5.5x4in, bound in rough sheepskin |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Publication Note | Translated with introduction: Woodruff, C E, A XVth Century Guide-Book to the Principal Churches of Rome (1933) (CCL BX 4634.R6)
Catalogued: Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries II, pp309-11 |