Copy number: A-133(1)

For this copy see Coates–Jensen 254-5, no. 21.

Wanting a3.

Bound after MS. F with:
MS. A (fols 1^r –32^v). Constantius presbiter, Vita S. Germani Autissiodorensis; Liber de naturis animalium;
MS. B (fols 33^r –88^v) Heptarchia Saxonum in Britannia; Liber generationis regum Angliae per genealogiam tripartitam cum gestis illorum abbreuiatis;
MS. C (fols 89^r –102^v) Acta S. Barbarae; Contra malos praelatos; De donatione dominii de Pontefracto per Guillelmum Conquestorem Hilberto de Lacy militi; list of deaths between 1311 and 1377; notes; Notitia de captione Andreae Barton, Piratae Scoti (in the year 1511);
MS. D (fols 103^r –113^v) Historia de bello sacro; De terra sancta; Exordium Carthusianorum monachi per Brunonem;
MS. E (fols 114^r –128^v) De origine et vita sanctorum ordinis fratrum gloriosae virginis de Carmelo, dated 1426; Johannes Grossus, Viridarium de ortu religionis et floribus eiusdem ordinis; Johannes Bacon[thorpe], Speculum eiusdem ordinis; Notitiae de rebus Anglicis historicae; Legenda Amelii et Amici; De origine fratrum praedicatorum;
MS. F (fols 129^r –141^v) Fundatio Abbatiae de Kirkestall in comitatu Eborniensi; Historia Silvestri papae qui fecit diabolo homagium;
(fols 188^r –191^r) Christophorus Columbus, Epistola de insulis nuper inventis. Paris: In campo Gaillardi (Guy Marchant), [after 29 Apr. 1493] (C‑389);
MS. G (fols 192^r –204^v) Speculum ecclesiae Edmundi Riche.
For a fuller description see Coxe, Laudian MSS, cols 513-15; M. V. Clarke and N. Denholm-Young, ‘The Kirkstall Chronicle', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 15 (1931), 100-37. On MS. F see also Elizabeth Freeman, Narratives of a New Order: Cistercian Historical Writing in England, 1150-1220, Medieval Church Studies, 2 (Turnhout, 2002), 137-49.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English sprinkled calf with border of triple fillets; 1630s, bound in London by Richard Badger for Laud, and stamped on both covers in gold with the arms of Canterbury, impaled with Laud.

Size: 197 × 152 × 48 mm.

Size of leaf: 190 × 138 mm.

Two parchment leaves from a fifteenth-century manuscript used as reinforcing pieces.

Provenance: Kirkstall, Yorkshire, Cistercians. Anthony Adell [Jackson]; see Ker, Medieval Libraries, 107 and note 8, but without reference to Adell; inscription on 102^v: ‘Antonius Adell monachus de kirkstall'; on 126^r: ‘Liber for Kirstall'. Thomas Falkingham of Northall (before 1563-?1619/20); on 192^r: ‘This bouke was ffounde wherat Thomas ffolkyngham did preserve it from burninge anno domine Elizabethe regine .37. primo may .1595.' On the same page: John Ahornor(?) (fl. before 1633). Jo[hannes?] Hundleby (fl. before 1633); name on fols 193^r and 204^v; on fol. 97^v: ‘Transcribed. J.H.', on fol. 102^v: ‘exscripsi. J.H.' William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645); inscription dated 1633 on fol. 1^r: ‘Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et Cancellarii Vniuersitatis Oxoniensis. 1633.’ Donated by Laud in 1633; see Coxe, Laudian MSS, p. xxxv.

SHELFMARK: MS. Laud Misc. 722 (fols 142-87).