Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls series

The register of Archbishop John Peckham of Canterbury (c.1230-92) is an important source for thirteenth-century history. Published in three volumes between 1882 and 1885, it contains much information on the conquest of Wales by Edward I and on the history of Oxford University, as well as purely ecclesiastical matters.

Ralph de Diceto (d.1199/1200), dean of St Paul's, was both a painstaking compiler of information and an intellectual historian of remarkably wide vision. This two-volume collection of his writings, published in 1876, covers the history of the world from the Creation to 1202 (it was continued posthumously).

This two-volume work, published in 1872, presents an edited collection of letters and documents, originally compiled by Thomas Beckington, who was hugely influential in fifteenth-century Church affairs and government. In the original Latin and with valuable commentary, it offers insight into foreign, diplomatic and domestic affairs of the time.

Matthew Paris compiled and illustrated this chronicle of English history from the Creation to his death in 1259. This seven-volume edition of the Latin text was published between 1872 and 1883. Volume 1 covers the Creation to the Norman Conquest, and is derived mainly from Roger of Wendover's Flores historiarum.

Composed by chronicler Pierre de Langtoft (died c.1305), this history of England in Anglo-Norman verse was popular at the beginning of the fourteenth century. This volume, published in 1866, begins with the legendary Brutus and covers the history of Saxon and Norman kings, until the death of King Stephen.

Matthew Paris, a monk at St Albans, wrote and illustrated this history of England from the Norman Conquest to 1253. This three-volume edition of the Latin text was first published in 1866-9. Volume 1, covering 1067 to 1189, derives mainly from the work of Paris' predecessor, Roger of Wendover.

Published 1866-8, this three-volume work, focusing on the abbey of Meaux, Yorkshire, is one of the most important Cistercian chronicles. Thomas de Burton (d.1437) was abbot from 1396 to 1399, and his is a valuable and detailed account of the history and internal economy of a Cistercian abbey.

This influential chronicle by Ranulf Higden (d.1364) reveals how fourteenth-century scholars understood world history and geography. It is particularly important as a source for contemporary English history. This nine-volume work was published between 1865 and 1886.

Compiled by French knight Jean de Wavrin in the fifteenth century, this is the first full-length history of England. This volume, published in 1864, covers the period from the mythical origins of Albion to the abdication and conversion of King Caedwalla of Wessex.

Richard of Cirencester (c.1335-1400) was a Benedictine monk at Westminster whose Latin history narrates the story of England from the legendary accession of Vortigern in 447 up to Harold II in 1066. Volume 1, edited by John E. B. Mayor (1825-1910), was published in 1863.

Compiled by French knight Jean de Wavrin in the fifteenth century, this is the first history of England of this magnitude. Volume 1, published in 1864, covers the period from the mythical origins of Albion to the abdication and conversion of King Caedwalla of Wessex.

This two-volume publication (1872-3) brings together records from the abbey of St Albans in the later fifteenth century, when the Wars of the Roses directly affected the local population. Volume 1 focuses on 1451-61 and testifies to the abbey's internal politics as well as national concerns.

This work by Reginald Pecock (c.1392-c.1459) was republished in 1860 as part of the Rolls Series of medieval manuscripts. It is a sagacious and critically skilled text, in which the Bishop of Chichester states and answers attacks made on clerical practices by contemporary reformers, particularly the Lollards.

This edition of the history of the abbots of St Albans by Thomas Walsingham (c.1340-c.1422) was published in three volumes between 1867 and 1869. The text is in Latin with English side-notes. Volume 1 covers the period from the abbey's foundation in 793 to 1290.

Hector Boece (c.1465-1536) studied in Dundee and Paris. His Scotorum historia, covering the period 330 BCE to 1437, was published in 1527, and translated into French and Scots by royal command. This verse translation was completed by the courtier William Stewart in 1535, but not published until 1858.

This medieval text records events in Britain and Europe during the first half of the fifteenth century. Published in two volumes in 1870-1, it is full of fascinating details, and features occasional verse by the abbot of St Albans. The text is in Latin, with an English introduction and side-notes.

The rediscovery of the roll of parliamentary proceedings for 1305 marked the beginning of modern scholarship on medieval English parliaments. The roll was edited by Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906) and first published in full in 1893. This edition also includes thirteen additional petitions and a substantial introduction.

Written by Anglo-Norman historian Geoffrei Gaimar (fl.1136-7), this text is both the oldest surviving metrical chronicle in vernacular French and the first secular account of the history of England. Published in two volumes in 1888-9, the work begins in 495 and ends with Henry I's death.

St Thomas's Abbey, Dublin, a royal foundation of Henry II, was important in the early Anglo-Norman history of Ireland. Its register, published in 1889, contains documents, chiefly grants of churches and land, relating to the abbey in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

This important Latin chronicle covering the period from the Creation to 1326 was compiled at St Albans and Westminster. It was edited for the Rolls Series by Henry Richards Luard (1825-91) and published in three volumes in 1890. Volume 3 contains the annals from 1265 to 1326.

This important Latin chronicle covering the period from the Creation to 1326 was compiled at St Albans and Westminster. It was edited for the Rolls Series by Henry Richards Luard (1825-91) and published in three volumes in 1890. Volume 2 contains the annals from 1067 to 1264.

This important Latin chronicle covering the period from the Creation to 1326 was compiled at St Albans and Westminster. It was edited for the Rolls Series by Henry Richards Luard (1825-91) and published in three volumes in 1890. Volume 1 contains the annals to 1066.

Bury St Edmunds possessed an extremely important Benedictine abbey. This three-volume collection of documents, edited and published between 1890 and 1896, includes accounts of the life and miracles of St Edmund (d.869), the history of the abbey, and its often fraught relations with the burgesses of the town.

Bury St Edmunds possessed an extremely important Benedictine abbey. This three-volume collection of documents, edited and published between 1890 and 1896, includes accounts of the life and miracles of St Edmund (d.869), the history of the abbey, and its often fraught relations with the burgesses of the town.

Bury St Edmunds possessed an extremely important Benedictine abbey. This three-volume collection of documents, edited and published between 1890 and 1896, includes accounts of the life and miracles of St Edmund (d.869), the history of the abbey, and its often fraught relations with the burgesses of the town.

Complementing the register of St Osmund (also reissued in this series), which relates to the twelfth century, this work, published in 1891, continues the ecclesiastical, social and royal history of Salisbury into the thirteenth century. It contains transcripts of Latin documents drawn from five manuscripts.

A rich resource for medieval historians, the Liber rubeus de Scaccario is a register, or book of remembrance, first compiled during the reign of Henry III. This three-volume edition, with extensive introductory material by Hubert Hall (1857-1944), was first published in 1896.

A rich resource for medieval historians, the Liber rubeus de Scaccario is a register, or book of remembrance, first compiled during the reign of Henry III. This three-volume edition, with extensive introductory material by Hubert Hall (1857-1944), was first published in 1896.

A rich resource for medieval historians, the Liber rubeus de Scaccario is a register, or book of remembrance, first compiled during the reign of Henry III. This three-volume edition, with extensive introductory material by Hubert Hall (1857-1944), was first published in 1896.

This two-volume edition of works about Patrick, the fifth-century apostle to Ireland, was published in 1887. Dating from the fifth to the eleventh century, in both Latin and Irish, the texts show the development of the saint's cult, ranging from hagiography to hymns and homilies. The Irish texts are translated.