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• Résumé : CCCC MS 171, divided into two parts, A and B, since James' description in 1912, contains the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower (1385-1449), a history of the kingdom of Scotland beginning with its foundation on the arrival of Scota, daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh. This chronicle was a continuation and expansion of the Chronica gentis Scotorum by John Fordun (d. after 1363). The manuscript was written c. 1447-9 at the Augustinian abbey of Inchcolm in Fife and was amended under the direction of Bower himself, abbot of Inchcolm (d. 1449). It is considered to be one of the most important texts of late medieval Scottish historical writing in existence and was used as the basis for the nine-volume edition of the text published under the general editorship of D. E. R. Watt. There are a few coloured full and half-page drawings of major narrative events such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Coronation and funeral of Alexander III. It is not known how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  iv-xxv - Chronologies. Lists of kings, popes and emperors

  Note : The earlier leaves of the first quire are much mutilated

  Note : (ir) blank

  Note : (iv) Part of inner column left: rhyming lines

  incipit : (iv) amτm corporis ... / ... leuero maxi labo ... / ... ocie volensattemptar(e) / ... duum opus compilare / etc.

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (iv) deficiens vita sibi detur / ... queso quilibet ut sic sit precetur

  rubric : (iv) Sequitur liber qui dicitur Scoticronicon

  Note : (iv) Distich over coloured drawing of shield of France in lower margin

  incipit : (iv) Inclita progenies dono liliata supernoSub carolo tu clara vale, sis leta triumphis

  Note : (iv) In lower margin on L. of the shield is a fragment of a finely executed grisaille drawing, part of a figure of a scribe at a desk remains

  Note : (iir) Most of one column

  Note : (iir) Anno mo cc xcvito bellum de spot s ...

  incipit : (iir) Sunt tria que miserum fi ...

  Note : (iir) List of dates of battles

  Note : (iir) Prophecy in verse begins in larger script

  incipit : (iir) Albion in terris rex primus germine scotus. Jllorum ... Fergusius fuluo ferchard rugientes in arm ... etc.

  Note : (iiv) Genealogical table with shield of Scotland impaled with that of Edward Confessor

  Note : (iiir) Heading

  rubric : (iiir) lib(er)

  incipit : (iiir) Quoniam huius sequ... / quorum memorie labilitas ... / que inibi scripta sunt

  Note : (On the ages of the world)

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (iiir) In principio .s. erit corporum resu(rrectio)

  Note : 3v. sqq. in double columns

  Note : Verse chronicle continuing to 6r (Edward III)

  Note : (viv) Single lines

  Note : (viv) ... infrascripto Scoticronicon libro succinctius perstrinximus / ... verantur. Genealogiam regis nostri moderni Jacobi secundi

  Note : (viiv) Ends with descent of James II from Adam

  Note : (viiir) List of Popes from Peter to Eugenius IV. Nicholas V is perhaps original. Other hands continue to Julius II

  Note : (ixr) List of Emperors, with prose prologue, to Sigismund, continued by other hands to Maximilian

  Note : (xv) Provinciale, five columns to page

  Note : (xiiir) Tabula monasteriorum Scocie, 3 columns

  Note : Ends with houses of nuns

  Note : (xivr) List of vicecomitatus Scocie

  Note : 14v-20v blank

  Note : (xviir) A fragment

  Note : (xixr) A half leaf, on it is written (xv-xvi)

  Note : (xixr) I schreu hiȝ hert and al ye harnis in hiȝ heed / yt this lef outschar bot gif it be ane / of ye chanouns of the Inche of saint / Columbe

  Note : On verso

  Note : (xixv) I schreu hiȝ hert and al ye harnis in hiȝ heed / yt tuk out yis half lef gif it weȝ dun in / my keping qd gilbert ye hayes

  
  

  1r-150v - Scotichronicon (Volume 1) || Scotichronicon (the History of Fordun with the continuation of Walter Bower or Bowmakar, Abbot of Inchcolm, who died in 1449)

  incipit : (1r) Ne scribam vanum due pia uirgo manumdue manum rege cor uirgo maria precor

  rubric : (1r) Incipit liber I

  incipit : (1r) Debitor sum fateor non necessitate sed caritate compulsus. ... Reddere igitur necesse est quod promisi et ad satisfaci(endum) importunis generosae probitatis militis

  incipit : (1r) Domini Dauid Stewar(t) / de Rossiffe (Rossythe) peticionibus acquieui vidz. ad transcribendum sequens inclitum opus historicum per ven. oratorem d. Johannem ffordon. etc.

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (1r) inceptum per se deducere ad perfectum

  rubric : (1r) Explicit prologus

  rubric : (1r) Incipiunt capitula

  Note : (1v) Capitula (36 or 37)

  rubric : (1v) B. Compilatus incipit liber Scoticronicon. A. per sacre bone memorie Johannem de fforedon

  rubric : (1v) Vsque sextum codicem laus sua conualuit. Hinc ad finem operis alter onus subiit

  Note : (1v) Acrostic on Fordun's name. Incipiens opus etc., Skene I 3

  rubric : (2r) Prefatiuncula operis

  incipit : (2r) Sicut scribit Euodius ticinensis episcopus. Superflua scribere res iactancie est

  explicit : (2r) et quotquot tedio afifecti lectura eius leticie condonentur

  Note : (2r) Cap. I

  rubric : (2r) De mundo sensibili etc.

  Note : (Skene I 4)

  incipit : (2r) Ex variis quippe veterum

  Note : At top in large letters is

  rubric : (4r) Sancti columbe patet emonie liber iste

  Note : This is the name of the Abbey of Inchcolm, to which the Donibristle MS. also belonged, Skene I xvi

  Note : (14r) Liber II, capitula

  Note : (14v) On lower margin a finely stippled coloured drawing of a shipful of people, mostly armed men: over the principal figure is written gathelos, a woman Scota is in the stern, a sailor is hoisting the sail. Reproduced Nat. MSS. of Scotland II 83

  Note : (15r) Text

  Note : (39v) Liber III, capitula

  Note : (40v) blank

  Note : (41r) Text

  Note : (65v) Liber IV, capitula

  Note : (66v) Text

  Note : (87v) Liber V, capitula

  Note : (88v) Text

  Note : (88r) The lower half has a coloured drawing: de rege malcolmo kenremor et thano de fiffe. The king is seated, in red robe with vandyked sleeves. The thane, a larger figure in front on L. takes his hand. The scene is an interior

  Note : (109v) Liber VI, capitula

  Note : (111r) Text

  Note : On f. 110r is an addition

  Note : (110r) Anno domini mo co vii Eadgarus scotorum rex ... obiit

  Note : Followed by

  Note : (110r) Copia littere manumissionis populi anglorum facta per matildem

  Note : (117v) A break, at 1067, end of VI 23, and in large letters these lines (Skene I xiii)

  Note : (117v) Actenus actorem de fordon sume JohannemHinc opus auctoris et scriptoris superextatAbreuiatiue scriptor nonnulla prioriImmiscit parti protractu marginis apteIntitulata tamen. quos christus protegat amen

  Note : (118r) continues (De episcopis kilreymonth etc.)

  Note : (126v) blank

  Note : (130v) Liber VII, capitula

  Note : (131v) Text