The Kirkstall Abbey chronicles; ed. by John Taylor. 1952
CONTENTS
| PREFACE | 1-2 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | |||
| I | The White Monks and Fourteenth Century Historical Writing | 3 | |
| II | The Problem of the Laud Volume | 17 | |
| III | Provenance and Sources of the Kirkstall Chronicles | 21 | |
| (i) | External Evidence | 21 | |
| (ii) | Internal Evidence | 22 | |
| (iii) | Sources | 25 | |
| IV | Other Kirkstall Manuscripts | 30 | |
| (i) | Fundacio | 30 | |
| (ii) | Lacy Genealogies | 32 | |
| (iii) | Cotton Domitian A. XII. | 35 | |
| (iv) | Manuscripts owned by Kirkstall Abbey | 37 | |
| V | The Importance of the Kirkstall Chronicles | 40 | |
| VI | Appendix: Index to the Sources of the Long Chronicle | 46 | |
| TEXTS | |||
| I | Translation of the Short Kirkstall Chronicle ... ... 52 | ||
| II | Translation of the Long Kirkstall Chronicle ... ... 86 | ||
| III | Text of the Short Kirkstall Chronicle ... ... ... 98 | ||
| NOTES | 129 | ||