St Albans Abbey Bibliography

Bodleian, Oxford

MS Bodley, 565 (c.1430) Cult of St Alban.

MS Bodley, 585 (ff 18^v-47^r) Part of John of Wheathampstead’s Granarium.

MS Laud Misc. 706 (c.1420) Cult of St Alban. Verses by Wheathampstead, windows of Cloisters and Library, first battle of St Albans

MS Rawlinson B 189 (c.1420) Cult of St Alban.

MS Ashmole 784 Note on Mandeville inscription and heraldry

MS Ashmole 1796 14-C astronomical clock of Abbot Wallingford

MS Ashmole Rolls 45 Abbots in procession, 1512.

MS Bodley TOP. GEN. e 61 pp.41 59. Iconography of the Abbey of St Albans (1717).
St Gothard, Hildesheim,

Albani Psalter c.1120.

Trinity College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

Magdalen College

Others

Autun MS 34 (De Miraculis S Alban, 9-C)

Bede, A History of the English Church and People. Trans. Leo Sherley-Price. (Harmondsworth, 1955).

Boso, Vita Adriani, Le Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 2nd ser. 3, 2nd edn, 3 vols (Paris, 1955–7), ii, 388–97

Bib. Nat. Paris MS 11748, Passio Albani, (anon., C7).

Bib. Nat. Paris, MS Latin 5411, f.253 r. (picture of pope Adrian IV).

Coll. of Arms Arundel 3. Gesta Joh. Whethamstede. C-xv.

Constantis, Life of St Germanus; Monumenta Germania Historica Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum, VII, (1919), 225-83.

Exch. Q.R. Anc. Misc. 83/4 (Surveye of the scite of the Abbey of S. Alban’s 2 Edw. VI. Feb. 1, 1548).

Excheq. MS. 72/16, (Henry VIII’s use of some conventual buildings as stables).

Fortunatus, ‘Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers [c.600], in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi, iv., ed. F. Leo and B. Kreusch, I (1881), 185.

Gray’s Inn MS 3 (De Miraculis S Alban, 12-C)

Herald’s Office, Norfolk Press, 3. (Chronicon of Abbot Wheathampstead).

Monacho Quondam S Albani, Chronicon Angliae ed. E.M. Thompson, (Rolls Series, 1874).

Mount Stuart, Marquess of Bute. Vita S. Albani, etc: C-xiv-xv. [de studio domini abbatis].

Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, ed. H.R. Luard, 7 vols. (Rolls Series, 1872-84).

-Historia Major, ed. W. Wats, (London, 1684).

Henry Morgan Library, New York, M43, M759, M962, 11-12C books from St Albans, (see Muniment room, 1994).

William Rishanger, Chronica et Annales 1259-1307. (Rolls Series, 1865).

Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blaneforde, Chronica et Annales, 1259-1296, 1307-1324, 1392-1406, ed. H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series, 1866).

Turin MS D.V.3., Passio Albani (Early C6)

Thomas Walsingham, Chronicon Angliae ab anno Domini 1328 usque ad annum 1388, Actore Monacho quidam Sancti Albani, ed. E.M. Thompson, (Rolls Series, 1874).

Rogeri de Wendover, Liber qui dictiur Flores Historiarum ab anno Domini MCLIV annoque Henrici Anglorum regis Secundi primo, ed. H.G. Hewlett, 3 vols. (Rolls Series, 1886-1889) and trans. J.A.Giles, (Bohn, 1849).

John of Wheathampstead (vol. 1) and William of Wallingford (vol. 2) Chronica Monasterii S Albani, ed. H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series, 1871 2).

John Wethamstede, Will. Albon, etc. Registra quorundam Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani, qui saeculo XV floruere, 2 vols. (Rolls Series, 1872-1873).

Worcester Cathedral Chapter Library, MS F 10 (c.1440) Cult of St Alban.

Charter in Herts Archives, (Gorhambury VIII. B. 60), Henry II, confirming rights of Monastery, 1155-62.

Charters and other MSS in the Muniment room, St Albans Cathedral:

A Grant to the Abbot and Convent of St Albans of the right to free warren in all their demesne lands in England. 1248. (Copy in B.L. Harl. 58. I. 7.)

A Licence to Richard de Tyneswyke and Alice his wife to alienate a messuage and land in Rykemersworth, Caysho and Little Bisseye. 1312.

A Licence to Walter Tubbe and others to give land to the Abbot in part satisfaction of 100 librates. 1312.

A Licence to Adam of Newenham, Chaplain, to give the manor of Caldecote to the Abbot in part satisfaction of 100 librates. 1321.

A Pardon to the Abbot and Convent for having demised various lands at full value. 1347.

A Licence to William le Parsone and others that they may give houses and land to the Abbot. 1349.

An Indenture between the King and Thomas, Abbot of St Albans, about a corrody. 1364.

An Agreement between the Abbot of St Albans and Richard Horwode, Vicar of Sandridge, about the small tithes and other payments. 1405.

The Deed of a Tenement in St Albans. 1508.

A Grant to John Jenyns of the Manor of Combe-Newell. 1540.

A Permit to John Jennings to alienate the Manor of Sandridge. 1606.