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- 1300-1400 (Creation)
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1 volume 9+ x 6+ in., 87 ff.; 1) has two columns of 32 lines each and 2) has two columns of 33 lines each vellum
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At f. 40r is "Elizabeth pigott", and at f. 53r "Thomas pigott est verus posser huius libri".
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Two chronicles; M. R. James's no. 58. Contains: 1) the Scala chronica of Thomas Gray [d. 1369], down to the death of Henry III (1272), in French prose, imperfect at the beginning; 2) a Latin chronicle starting from 1042 and ending, imperfectly, with the death of Simon de Montfort [1265] - an extract from the Annals of Waverley, a Cistercian house near Farnham, Surrey. The last quire is misbound.
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Microfilm available (with Q.G.29). A 17C transcript of the second chronicle survives as Bodleian Library MS. Tanner 383.
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Partly ed. by Stevenson for the Maitland Club (1836). The Annals of Waverley were ed. by H. R. Luard in Annales Monastici, ii ((Rolls Series, 1865), from a ms. in the Cottonian collection. The later part of Gray's Scala Chronica, from 1272, is available in a modern edition, ed. by Andy King (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, for the Surtees Society, 2005).
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According to James, the principal ms. of Scala chronica is at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.