| Description | Initials illuminated in red and blue.
Folios 2 and 3 contain a short chronicle beginning with the birth of King Edward III; the last entry records the destruction of the campanile (at Canterbury) by an earthquake on 21 May in the fifth year of King Richard II (1382.)
Folios 4a, 5 and 6a contain the taxation of the spiritualities and temporalities of the bishops of the southern and northern provinces temp King Edward III.
Folios 7b, 8a, names of Kings of England who possessed the whole land, - from Alfred to Richard II.
Folios 9a to end. Statutes of King Edward III from his first to his fiftieth year.
Described in Ker, Medieval Manuscripts, p288. |