Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.506–9.

[1]

f. 124v

Thorrough this occasion the egle in þe C of R hath loste many a fether and in þe eande he schal be made naked.

Brief prophecy relating to the Pope added by a later (s. xv ex. or s. xvi) hand. Not listed by Coote.

[2]

f. 125

Beda went to rome thryes and þer fownd arighten ouer þe yates þer 3 R R R 3 F F F and he expouned them regna rome ruent ferro flamma fame.

Note about Bede added by the same hand as [1]. This is set alongside 4 lines in Latin, by a different hand, the last two of which duplicate the cipher and its exposition. Below this are 4 lines of verse in English beginning ‘Þure wisdam this worlde hathe us rafte’ (NIMEV 2729). [3]

f. 125

Cadwaldre of the nacioun of the saxons sumtume kinge of englande and he came owght of wales wher þe saxons had þe regiment and for a serten greete hoonger mortalite and pestilence whiche god plaged england wiþ for synne he fledd into lyttle brettoun wher he horde a voyce frome heven wiche sayde unto hym …

f. 125

… and translated into brytayn cadwaldre cadwalidus þe laste king of þe lignage of brytanne was cristened by sergius B of R anno domini 684.

Historical note, added by the same hand as [1], about Caedwalla, king of England, noting his baptism by Pope Sergius I (689 AD), as recorded in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum V.7, see L. Sherley-Price, transl. Bede: A History of the English Church and People (London, 1955) p. 274.

MS s. xiii; additions by a s. xv ex. or s. xvi hand.