Manuscript

London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 306

Date of originSecond half of the fifteenth century
Place of originLondon
MaterialPaper
DimensionsWidth: 295mm | Height: 215mm
Notes

Composite volume, consisting of ten separate parts, part 10 being printed works by Caxton.

Part I: ff. 1-48

Part II: ff. 49-72

Part III: ff. 73-110

Part IV: ff. 114-126

Part V: ff. 127-131

Part VI: ff. 132-141

Part VII: ff. 142-165

Part VIII: ff. 166-177

Part IX: ff. 178-187

Part X: ff. 188-201

Fly-leaves: ff. 202-205

The historian John Stowe bound these volumes together. He wrote most of part II, and filled blank pages with his notes in part I and possibly transcribed some words in parts III and IV.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
1r-17r

Chronicles of England

Prose.

17v-18v

Lydgate's 'Verses on the Kings of England'

3632

Written as prose.

18v-46r

Chronical entries from Richard I to Edward IV

Prose.

46r-48r

Historical notes from the historian John Stowe about the years 1563-1565.

Prose. 

49r-50v

A proclamation made by Jacke Cade, Captain of the rebels in Kent, in 1460

Prose

51r-52v

A dirge on the death of the Duke of Suffolk

1555
53r

A description of the Christening of Arthur, son of Henry VII.

Prose.

53v-55r

The manner of making knights

Prose.

55v

Names of knights who came to England as part of the Norman conquest

Prose.

56r

A memorial of charges sustained at Boulogne

Prose.

56v-59r, 61v

Notes from the historian John Stowe on the years 1565-7

Prose.

63r-v

Notes by Stowe on the Plague in London, 1564

Prose.

Four notes by Stowe on the year 1561

Prose.

64r-65r

Bernardus de re familiari

Double columns. Prose.

65r-v

List of 30 books prohibited in 1531

Prose. Written in two columns.

65v

Medical recipes

Prose.

65v

Note by Stowe on the year 1561

Prose.

66r-67r

The confession of master Richard Allington, esq. 31st November 1561

Unfinished prose.

67v

Note by Stowe on the year 1562

Prose.

68r

Medical recipes

Prose.

68r

Note by Stowe on the year 1563

Prose.

68v

Names of herbs in Latin and English

Prose.

69a-70r

Nine notes by Stowe on the year 1563

Prose.

70v-71v

Medical recipes

Prose.

71v

Note by Stowe on the year 1563

Prose.

72r-v

Alphabetised list of names of herbs in Latin and English

Prose.

73r-107r Libeaus Desconus 1690
107r-109v

The Adulterous Falmouth Squire

2052
110r-113v

Sent gregoris Trentall

1653
114r

Medical recipes

Prose.

114r-126v

Medicines of Leechcraft

Prose.

127r-131r

The Life of St. Eustace

Prose.

131v

Medical recipe for the treatment of migraines

Prose.

132r

The receiving of Edward IV at Bristol 1469

3880
132r

Medical recipes

Prose.

132v

Regina celi letare

2789

Latin and English.

132v

Medical recipe for the treatment of migraines

Prose.

133r

Gaude flore virginali

897
133v

Medical recipes

Prose.

134r-v

Twelve letters that shall save England

709
134r-v

Medical recipes

Squashed beside the Twelve Letters. Prose.

136r

Edwardus dei gracia

3127
136r

Medical recipe.

Prose.

136v

Greeting on New Year's morning

1789
137r

To my heart's joy

2247
137v

Unto his mistress

3291
138r

To my lady dear

868
139r

Retinue of Edward III at Calais 1346

Prose

140v

Medical recipes

Prose.

141r

Historical notes

Prose.

141v

Medical recipes

Prose.

142r-144v

Lydgate's 'The Horse, the Sheep and the Goose'

658
145r-152r

The Complaint of Christ

3612
152v-164v

The Stations of Rome

1172
165r-165v

Medical recipes

Prose.

166r-175r

On falconry

Prose.

176r

Beasts of venery

Prose.

176r

Terms of venery

Prose.

176v

Diet for a nightingale

Scribbled on the top margin. Prose.

176v

Tokens to know the sex of a lark

Prose.

177r

Diet for a nightingale

Prose.

177v

Hymn to the Virgin Mary

2397
178r

A medicine for toothache

Prose.

178r

A fable of a Wright that was married to a poor daughter

186v-187v

Medical recipe

Prose.

188r-201r

The Life of Saint Winifred

Printed.

201v

Latin mass for St. Winifred

202v

A decree and statute made by the honorable counsel of the City of London for the giving of the benefice of St. Peter's in Cornhill

Prose.

203r

Twelve points for purchasers of land to look for

4148
203r column 2

The longitude of men

Prose.

203v

Notes on terms of vocations

Prose.

203v column 2

Latin verse

204r-v

The Battle between the king of Scots, called King James and the noble earl of Surrey

Prose.

205r-v

Notes and recipes

Mostly torn off.