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• Résumé : Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59), a Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey, was their official chronicler who wrote chronicles covering both world history and British history. These two volumes are of his most important work, the Chronica maiora, covering world history, but with a particular emphasis on that of Britain - vol I is CCCC MS 26 and vol II is CCCC MS 16, their production dating to the period c. 1240-55. Matthew was also a talented artist who was both scribe and illustrator of his own chronicles. These volumes have coloured marginal drawings, and also signs and heraldic shields in the borders signifying the persons and incidents in their lives, and also signifying their deaths, set beside the text passages mentioning these events. Recently, in 2003, the prefatory section to MS 16 (ff. i recto - v verso), containing lists and genealogies of kings, a diagram of the winds, itineraries, maps, and the picture of the elephant given by Louis IX to Henry III, has been bound separately as MS 16I. The part containing the chronicle text itself, ff. 1v-282r, has been rebound as MS 16II.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, français

  
  

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  Matthew Paris OSB - author

  1v-282r - Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora II

  Note : Illustrations

  Note : Text

  Note : (1v) Shield and crown of Henry II reversed

  Note : (2r) Shield and crown of Richard I

  Note : (13v) Moritur Salaadinus. A crow (his soul) flies out of his mouth

  Note : (21v) Shield and crown of Richard I reversed: two swords, also reversed

  Note : (22r) Crown and shield of John.Three crowns (silver, gold, iron) of the Emperor Otto, and his shield.Shield of Otto dimidiated with England

  Note : (25v) Pillory, Collistrigium: frame on tall central shaft: with accommodation for necks and hands of two

  Note : (30r) A minorite friar

  Note : (31v) Bell with rope hanging round the beam (Interdict)

  Note : (33r) Shield reversed, of Roger of Chester

  Note : (33v) Shield reversed, of William de Braose

  Note : (35v) Charter with seal dependent, carta detestabilis

  Note : (41r) Battle. Philip of France unhorsed. Hugo de Boues gallops off to R., shot at

  Note : (42r) Magna Charta with seal

  Note : (43r) Charta de Foresta

  Note : (44r) Blank charter. Others occur later

  Note : (46v) Shipwreck of Hugo de Boues

  Note : (47v) Lateran Council: two groups of Bishops half-length

  Note : (48v) Oppressions: On L. a man in curious vandyked tunic covered with hammers in red, beats with a thong a stripped man with bound hands. On R. three nude men hang to a beam, two by their wrists, but the arms of one are turned back: they have fetters on their ankles: the third hangs head downwards

  Note : (49v) Shields of Faith and of the Soul. Below is written bacun.

  Note : (50r) Shield and sword of Geoffrey de Mandeville reversed

  Note : (50v) Landing of Louis, with ship's crew: he gets into a boat out of his ship

  Note : (52v) Reversed shield and falling crown of John: shield of Eustace de Vesci

  Note : (53r) Shield and crown of Henry III. His coronation (small, at top of page)

  Note : (53v) In text. A beautiful coloured bust of Christ (the Veronica). On the (brown) ground is α. ω. in white. The picture is on fine vellum pasted on to the page

  Note : (54r) The church of S. Alban: the robber Falco de Breauté in attitude of fear looking back at it

  Note : (55v) Siege of Lincoln

  Note : (56r) Bishops blessing English in a boat who fight with French in a larger ship

  Note : (56v) Kings of England and France embrace

  Note : (57v) Death of Saphadin: crow flies out of his mouth

  Note : (58r) Reversed shield of William Mareschall

  Note : (58v) Battle. Saracens and Christians at Damietta

  Note : (59v) Siege of Damietta

  Note : (60r) Second crowning of Henry by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Stone strikes the helmet of Simon de Montfort: his shield reversed. Shields of Albemarle and Bohun reversed

  Note : (61r) Fort of Montgomery. Shield of Arundel reversed

  Note : (61v) Shield of Hugo de Neville reversed. Lion pierced with sword and arrow

  Note : (62r) Two men wrestling

  Note : (62v) Shield of Philip of France reversed

  Note : (64r) Bedford Castle: outside it a gallows with a row of 4 (originally more) men hung on it

  Note : (65v) A maiden on L. with book. A prostrate man: a devil on R. seizes his leg. Miracle of a girl delivered from a demon

  Note : (68r) Reversed shield and crown of Louis of France

  Note : (68v) Shield and crown of Louis IX, small. Devil, fish, and man's head at top.Shield of Falcasius (de Breauté) reversed, also of Essex

  Note : (70v) Francis preaches to the birds: scroll, Auete aues etc. Francis reclines. S. Franciscus vite sue anno penultimo uidit Seraphin sic. The Seraph of the stigmata. Angelus magni consilii Seraphin. The names of the six wings in red. The names of the feathers on R.

  Note : (71r) Figure of Frater Willelmus nacione Anglicus socius S. Francisci

  Note : (71v) Reversed shield of Roger de thony. arg. a maunche gules

  Note : (74v) Cartaphila, the wandering Jew, with pick and scroll. Christ bearing cross addresses him. Legends: Cartaphila Christo. yppa xo crassay xos. Responsio Christi Euena yppa uo anany mamo. Vade ihesu ad iudicium tibi preparatum. Vado sicut scriptum est de me. Tu uero expectabis donec ueniam

  Note : (75r) Half-lengths, clerk with club, layman with axe. Town and gown fight at Paris

  Note : (76v) Scutum imperatoris. Scuti campus aureus aquila nigra. In text: seals of the golden bull of the Emperor

  Note : (79v) Reversed shield of William de Braose. gu. four piles arg. King of England in ship, arms on sail (goes to Brittany). Eclipse

  Note : (80v) Reversed shields. Remund de Burgo, Guilbertus comes Glouernie, William Mareschall

  Note : (82r) Man threshing sheaves. Violenta distraccio bladi Romanorum clericorum apud Wengham etc.

  Note : (82v) Knight tilts at man who stands embracing cross on mound.A knight spares his enemy out of reverence for the cross

  Note : (84r) Bell, beam and rope. Campana de communa lond

  Note : (85r) Three cups. Reversed shield of Ranulph earl of Chester, and sword

  Note : (86v) Diagram of perihelion

  Note : (88r) Fight of Mareschall at Monmouth?Man leads horses off on L.

  Note : (89r) Domus conuersorum london

  Note : (91v) Scutum marescalli. Mareschall? on horseback: surcoat with red hammers(?) on it

  Note : (93v) Clerk carrying crucifix. (Vision of Hubert of Kent)

  Note : (95v) William, abbot of St Albans, reclines (dead)

  Note : (97v) Two hands joined, crown and ring above. Marriage of Emperor

  Note : (98r) Two purses hanging on beam (the usurers of Cahors)

  Note : (98v) Reversed shield of Robert Fitzwalter

  Note : (99r) Hands, crown and ring. Marriage of King.Half-lengths of bishops with crown, asperge, sword, wand etc.

  Note : (106v) Reversed shield of John Earl of Chester

  Note : (109r) Council of London. Otto as Bishop on L. addresses Bishops on R., all seated

  Note : (112r) Germanus of Constantinople(?) as Bishop, seated, clutching his beard: angry. (Disagreement with the Latins)

  Note : (127r) Imperial seal of Frederick, and seals of golden bull

  Note : (132v) Shield of Devon, or lion rampant azure. Fine initial

  Note : (133r) Llewellyn dying in bed. Griffinus and David stand by weeping

  Note : (133v) Reversed shield of Earl de Warenne checky or and azure

  Note : (134v) Flight of the French. The Damascenes drive off captives on R. locus istius belli fuit ante gathre

  Note : (135r) Damascus

  Note : (135v) Shield of Earl of Lincoln

  Note : (137r) Earl Richard and crew in ship

  Note : (137v) Shield of Th. de Muletuna

  Note : (139v) Cities L. and R. Acon siue tholomaida, and Crac. Christians on L., Saracens on R. In C. fedus irritum. Comes Britannie and Nazer dominus crac kneel and join hands: in mail, bare-headed

  Note : (140v) The crown of thorns; two pictures

  Note : (141r) Reversed shield of John Fitz Robert, quarterly gules and arg. a bend sinister, Belue marine. Four sea monsters fighting

  Note : (141v) Fine initial

  Note : (142r) Flags of Hospital and Temple and Oriflamme of France. Shield of Savoy

  Note : (142v) Reversed shields. Gilb. Basset. Joh. Biset. Walt. de LascySt Louis on a scaffold holds up the cross, another holds up the crown of thorns

  Note : (143r) Falling towers (a vision)

  Note : (145r) Formidabile exterminium tartarorum: a horseman kills two prostrate men with spear

  Note : (147r) Sea fight of Pisans and Genoese. Cities R. and L.

  Note : (148v) Reversed shield (with sword and spear) of Gilbert Mareschall. Mareschall falls from his horse

  Note : (149r) French freed by Saracens walk out of castle holding opened fetters

  Note : (150r) Two female jugglers

  Note : (151r) Shrine of St Edward

  Note : (152v) Elephant (at Cremona) with band of music on his back and Magister bestie with bell. His trunk is called promoscida

  Note : (153r) Shield of Segrave. Pike (for Lucy)

  Note : (154r) Fine initial

  Note : (154v) Comes Ricardus with men in boat (returns)

  Note : (156r) Rex transfretat uersus pictauiam. The king and queen and two men in a ship

  Note : (156v) Six reversed shields. Gilb. de Gaunt. Hugo Wac. Phil. de Kime. Henr. fil. imperatoris. Baldwin Wac. Comes de Warewic.Will. de Marisco drawn by horse to execution

  Note : (160v) French soldiers die of plague in Poitou

  Note : (161v) A boat on land(?). (Flood.) Shields. Ric. de Burgo, Hugo de Lascy

  Note : (162r) Fine initial

  Note : (163r) Truce: two joined hands, two crowns. Shields reversed Arundel, Hubert de Burgh

  Note : (164v) King and Queen return in ship

  Note : (167r) Tartars: one beheads a man, one eats human leg, another seated on cut-up bodies roasts a boy on spit. On R. a nude man bound by hair and arms to a tree: a horse eats the leaves of the tree

  Note : (168v) Fine initial

  Note : (170r) Griffin escapes from Tower: he falls: broken rope. Reversed shield of Griffin

  Note : (171v) Battle, before Babylon. Balcanifer flees with standard of the Temple

  Note : (178r) Pope mounted, in red cap, flees to R. (from the Emperor)

  Note : (178v) Engelram of Coucy dies: falls from horse in water, and pierced with sword

  Note : (181r) Charter of King of Scotland

  Note : (183r) Louis of France ill in bed. Queen touches his head with a double cross. Bishop on R., attendant kneels L. (He takes the cross.)Reversed shield of Baldwin Earl of Devon

  Note : (184v) Herbert Fitz Mathew on horse: man (Welshman) casts stone on his head.Reversed shield, party per pale gu. and az.: three lions rampant or

  Note : (186r) Hand (of a papal officer) cut off. Shield of Clare

  Note : (186v) Reversed shield of Galfr. de Marisco

  Note : (187r) A stag's head. Westminster Abbey

  Note : (187v) Council of Lyons. Thadeus de Suessa retires saying dies ista dies ire

  Note : (195r) Reversed shield of Remund of Provence

  Note : (195v) Fort of Gannoc

  Note : (196r) Reversed shields of Walter and Anselm Mareschall

  Note : (199r) Reversed shields of David of Wales with two arrows, and bow below

  Note : (205v) Reversed shields of Joh. de Nouilla. Horn above

  Note : (209v) Fine initial

  Note : (211v) Reversed shield of Fulco de Nouocastro

  Note : (212r) Reversed shield of Anjou

  Note : (216r) Henry carries the Holy Blood under canopy: met by Bishops and Abbot on R.

  Note : (216v) Shield of William de Valentia

  Note : (217v) Shield of Norway

  Note : (217v) Reversed shield of Ferrers

  Note : (218r) Reversed shield of Ric. Suard

  Note : (220r) A coin

  Note : (245r) Reversed shield of Emperor Frederick

  Note : (250r) Reversed shield of William de Cantelupe

  Note : (253r) Reversed shield of Paulinus Piper

  Note : (253v) Reversed shield of Galfr. Despencer

  Note : (255r) Bird with fruit in beak. Crossbill?

  Note : (257r) Shield of Scotland with sword, scabbard and spear

  Note : (258r) Reversed shield. Nic. de Sanford gu. 3 fesses wavy arg.

  Note : (265v) Reversed shield Hernald de Munteini

  Note : (280r) Shield of Spain: rough

  Note : (282r) Reversed shield. William de Wescy

  Note : In the above enumeration I have omitted a great many reversed mitres and crosiers which mark the deaths of prelates, also a few crowns and charters