Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

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Facta est abbacia de Der
⁊ Robertus primus abbas
magister conuersorum eiusdem domus. ¶Ciuitas illa famosissima paganorum,
que Damieta dicitur, postquam fere per triennium ▬ ab excercitu Christianorum ob
sideretur, a solo Christo capitur, & Christicolis cum magno miraculo possidenda
tribuitur nonas Nouembris, sicut in primo folio uoluminis huius plenius con
tinetur. Qualiter etc1











AAnno Domini \mo/ccoxxo nonas Aprilis obiit dompnus Ricardus, abbas de Neubotil, cui suc
cessit dompnus Ricardus, prior eiusdem domus. ¶In crastino octauarum Petri & Pauli
translate sunt reliquie beati Thome martyris. Cuius translationis dies in cismarinis partibus
precipitur haberi festiuus. ¶iiii nonas Nouembris, dompnus Radulfus abbas de Kinlos,
plenus dierum bonorum in senectute sancta de terris ut credimus in celum transmigra
uit, cui successit in cura regiminis dompnus Robertus abbas primus de Der,
loco cuius electus est in abbatem de Der, dompnus Alexander, prior de Kinlos.
¶In terra nostre redemptionis ex hac luce migrauit ad terram diuine promissionis
ut credimus, magister Robertus de Curzun plenus fide catholica, adornatus uirtutibus
& sapiencia, cuius meritis aput Deum, prout dicunt inde redeuntes crebra fiunt &
magna mracula.2








Ann3 Domini moccoxxio magister Iacobus, canonicus Sancti Victoris Parisius, apostolice
sedis penitencialis, Scot’ ⁊ Hibernie legatus, conuocatis totius regni prelatis
 

Notes

1 JT: Reference to the text on the next page (Cotton MS Faustina B IX, f. 38r: Qualiter capta est Damieta, anno gracie moccoxixo). This is evidence that f. 38 was at one stage perceived as the ‘first folio’ of the chronicle, probably a flyleaf with the current recto as the verso given the evident rubbing on f. 38v (as argued in Broun, The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, p. 139).
2 JT: Read miracula.
3 JT: Read Anno.
The abbey of Deer was created, and
Robert [was] the first abbot
master of the lay-brethren of that house, succeeded him. ¶That most famous city of the pagans, which is called Damietta, was occupied by an army of Christians after a period of nearly three years, ▬ taken by Christ alone, and with a great miracle, was offered up to the Christians to be possessed on 5 November, as is more fully addressed in the first folio of this volume. How etc.1












IIn the \1/220th year of the Lord, Dom Richard, abbot of Newbattle, died on 5 April; Dom Richard, prior of that house, succeeded him. ¶On the day after the octave of Peter and Paul, the relics of blessed Thomas the martyr were translated. The day of his translation is ordered to be held as a festival in lands this side of the sea. ¶On 2 November, Dom Ralph, abbot of Kinloss, full of good days in holy old age, passed, as we believe, from the earth into heaven; Dom Robert, the first abbot of Deer, succeeded him in the charge of the rule; in his place, Dom Alexander, prior of Kinloss, was elected as abbot of Deer. ¶In the land of our redemption, Master Robert de Curzon, full of the catholic faith, adorned with virtues and wisdom, left this light for the land of the divine promise (as we believe); by whose merits before God, frequent and great miracles were performed (as those who come back from there say).








In the 1221st year of the Lord, Master James, a canon of St Victor in Paris, a penitentiary of the apostolic see, and the legate of Scotland and Ireland, having summoned the prelates of the whole kingdom,

Notes

1 JT: Reference to the text on the next page (Cotton MS Faustina B IX, f. 38r: ‘How Damietta was captured in the 1219th year of grace’). This is evidence that f. 38 was at one stage perceived as the ‘first folio’ of the chronicle, probably a flyleaf with the current recto as the verso given the evident rubbing on f. 38v (as argued in Broun, The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, p. 139).