Courtenay Compendium

The second has an oriental focus and contains accounts of Europeans in China, the Crusades, Islam and the rise of the Mongols.

[2] It was rediscovered in the archives of Powderham Castle in Devon during the time of the 18th earl, Hugh Courtenay.

The main text is dark brown, but there are initials and paragraph markers in red ink by a different scribe.

The cover is decorated with the Courtenay arms and the spine labelled VARIÆ TRACTATI MSS.

The contents are:[4] The compendium contains the only extant copy of the recension of the Encomium Emmae Reginae prepared for Edward the Confessor.