Ranulf Higden, historiographer: Polychronicon Ranulf Higden's 'Polychronicon', books 1 - 6, translated by John de Trevisa. The Polychronicon of R. Higden in the English version of John Trevisa. Tables. Latin I. English 8, imperfect, ending in Latin. Prologue . . . . . . . . . . f. 12 After solempne & wise writers of art- A leaf is gone after f. 12 (Rolls ed., i. 18, l. 12 to 371 b). A large blank piece of 13 is cut out. The text ends in col. 2: the yere of grace of the prince tha(t) regnet. A note follows: hic nihil deficit quia scribitur in prima pagina reuolucionis alterius folii. Accordingly, 13 b, 14 a are blank. Text continues 14 b. Cap. 5. De orbis dimensione etc. Iulius cesar by counsail (l.c. i. 41). Lib. II.52: two quires transposed; ff. 67-74 should follow 75-82. Lib. III. 71 b: after c. 5, lese therefore (l.c. III. 155, l. 16), is a gap to 'the whiche the lif of man' in c. 18 (f. 83): l.c. III. 291, l. 2. In c. 33: after 'porta collina the consuls' (IV. 69, l. 3) a gap to c. 41 (40) 'hit after his owne name ludgate' (f. 99) (l.c. IV. 187, l. 2). Lib. IV. 103: in cc. 3, 4 a gap of a leaf 'Cesar louy'-'drynke' (IV. 309, l. 2-325, l. 8). Lib. V. 130 b: defective after c. 33 'Etheldredus kyng' (l.c. VI. 351, l. 6). Lib. VI. 156 begins imperfect in c. 10 (l.c. VII. 13, l. 12). A leaf gone in cc. 14, 15: another in 25, 26. Lib. VII. begins 171 b ending with the page 'Ayenst wynter' King William cum yn to (VII. 251, l. 22). 1387