| Date of origin | 1412-28 |
| Place of origin | Bath Cathedral Priory |
| Material | Parchment |
| Dimensions | Width: 210mm | Height: 320mm |
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| Notes |
The Red Book of Bath |
| Folio | Content item | IMEV | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1r-2v | The Golden Numbers |
Latin prose. |
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| 3r | Contenta in hoc libello Rubro de Bath, A. D. 1428 (Table of Contents) |
Latin prose. |
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| 3v | A medicyne and chastment for clerkes as commissaries Officyalis (warrant issued against userers and cheats) |
English, French and Latin prose. |
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| 4r | Littera quam dominus Henricus Rex anglie post conquestum quintus scripsit karolo Regi francorum in suo transitum in francciam (letter of King Henry V of England to King Charles VI of France) |
Latin prose. Dated 13th August, 1417. |
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| 4v | Littera Karoli ffrancie per hos subscriptos ambassadores (Charles VI's reply to Henry V) |
French prose. Dated 31st August, 1417. |
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| 5r | Si vis ad vitam ingredi serua mandata (Ten Commandments, in English) |
3684 | |
| 5v | Extracts from the four Gospels |
Latin prose. |
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| 6r-10v | Kalendar |
Latin prose. |
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| 11r | Prognostications of the days of the week |
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| 11v-12v | Astrological table with horoscopic notes |
Latin prose. |
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| 13r-13v | The art of bloodletting |
Page-sized human figure (f. 13r) and Middle English text on phlebotomy |
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| 14r-16r | De Juramento |
Latin prose (about oaths). |
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| 16v-17v | Classacio campanarum |
Latin prose (on bell-ringing). |
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| 18r-22r | Statute of Coroners |
Anglo-Norman and Latin prose. |
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| 22r-23r | On abjuration (La forme de abiuracion) |
Anglo-Norman, Latin and English prose. |
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| 23r-25r | Magna carta |
Latin prose. |
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| 25v-27r | Charter of the Forest |
Latin prose (forest laws). |
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| 27v-28r | Term of Common Pleas |
Latin prose. |
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| 28r | Modus Faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem (manner of rendering homage) |
Latin prose. |
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| 28v-29v | De mensuris et ponderibus (on weights and measures) |
Latin prose. |
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| 30r | De etatibus et Bellicis euentibus (of historical events and battles) |
Latin prose. |
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| 30v-31r | The namez of gentielz þat come on conquest |
Latin prose. |
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| 31v | Assize of Ale (Assisa Seruisie) |
Latin prose. |
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| 32r-34r | Assize of Bread (Assisa panis) |
Latin prose. |
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| 34v | Acre Staff (law relating to the measuring of land). |
Latin prose. |
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| 35r | Genealogia propinquitatis affinitatis Christi (genealogy of Christ) |
Latin prose. |
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| 35v | Short Brut Chronicle |
Latin prose. |
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| 42v-46r | Arthur | 1113 | Forms part of the narrative of the chronicle. Unique copy, 642 lines. |
| 46v-53v | Short Brut Chronicle (continued) |
Latin prose. |
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| 54r | Geneaological table on the English claim to the French crown |
Latin prose. |
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| 54v | Tria requirimenta ad iustem bellum (three things required for a just war) |
Latin prose. |
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| 55r-65r | Life of St. Catherine |
3205 | |
| 65v | Chronological notes |
Latin prose |
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| 66r-66v | Henry IV's confirmation of a statute issued by Richard II (Statutum Anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi Anglie apud Cantabruggiam duodecimo et confirmatum ac Stabiletum anno regis Henrici quarti XI apud Westmonasterium videlicet) |
French prose. Inserted on blank space on fol. 66r are a series of moralising sentences, first in Latin then translated into Middle English. |
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| 67r-67v | The King's Prerogative (Prerogativa domini Regis) |
Latin prose. |
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| 68v | The presentation of the pillory at Bath |
Latin prose. Dated 1412. |
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| 68v | Vow of fidelity |
Prose. |