Add. 43 xv cent. (2nd half). Vellum, 243 × 185 mm, 21 ff. + four paper leaves (204 × 154 mm) inserted at end; the leaves foliated 1–25 by Richard Amadas, after the loss of 20 and 21 in the modern numbering.

Three Kings of Cologne, in English

1r–23v Three Kings of Cullen (i.e. Cologne). An abridged translation of the Latin Historia Trium Regum by Johannes de Hildesheim.

Part of ch. 19 and most of ch. 20 are lost where ff. 20 and 21 are missing. Our text ends in ch. 22, p. 80 of the edition printed from CUL MS Ee. 4. 32 by C. Horstmann, EETS Original Series lxxxv (1886), which is, like this MS, the standard English prose version: see the list in F. Schaer, The Three Kings of Cologne: edited from London, Lambeth Palace MS 491 (Heidelberg, 2000), 26 n. 38.

Written in an anglicana hand, capitals not filled in. Foliation and marginal notes occur in red in the hand of Richard Amadas, d. 1629; see J. C. T. Oates, Cambridge University Library, a History from the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (Cambridge, 1986), 344–7. Limp vellum binding, earlier than Amadas.

On the upper cover in pencil is ‘E No 18 | Milton MSS’. Among the papers presented by J. P. Baumgartner of Milton Hall, near Cambridge, 1859 and 1861; see A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 5 vols plus index (Cambridge, 1856–67; reprinted Hildesheim, 1980) V, 1–190.

Add. 451 L ate xiv cent. Vellum, 313 × 221 mm, 247 ff. (1, 2, 260–3 are endleaves; 3, 4, formerly endleaves, are now missing). Other missing leaves are 50, 71, 74, 85, 89, 95, 123, 136, 147, 153, 178, 185, 209, 214.

Missale Sarum, ‘The Braybrooke Missal‘

1. 5r–10v Calendar.

Compared with the edition of Dickinson, 17**–28**, July 2 has Processus and Martinian, Aug. 6 has Sixtus, Felicissimus and Agapitus, Aug. 7 has Donatus, Oct. 2 has Leodegarius. The following entries which have feasts allocated to them in the print are blank in the MS: Feb. 11 (Transl. of Frideswide), Mar. 1 (David), 2 (Chad), 17 (Patrick), May7 (John of Beverley), 9 (Transl. of Nicholas), 24 (Festum sancti Salvatoris), Aug. 16 (Transl. of Osmund), Sept. 9 (Gorgonius), Oct. 17 (Etheldreda), 19 (Frideswide), Nov.3 (Winifred), Dec. 4 (Osmund).