| Description | A short Latin chronicle from the creation of the world to the tenth year of Henry VI; there are also chapters on the wonders of the world, certain prodigies, famous battles of recent times, on the city of Lincoln, and on the bishops of Lincoln from Remigius to William Alnwick (d.1449). Of Lincoln cathedral it is recorded that in 1124 it was consumed by fire; that in 1237 the campinile fell and destroyed a great part of the church; that the work of rebuilding the tower was completed in the year 1329 when certain relics were placed in the globe at its summit; and that in the year 1420 the wooden cross which surmounted the globe was destroyed by lightning. The colophon ends "Anno sub Xpi C quater M. ter decapente, Tris iungas isti sunt hec data corde libente". From which it would appear that the Chronicle was written in the year 1448.
Colophon has date 1438. Described in Kerr, Medieval Manuscripts, pp288-289. |