Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Monk, Richard

by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

MONK, RICHARD (fl. 1434), chronologer, described as an English chaplain, compiled at Oxford in 1434 certain chronological tables, which are preserved in Laud. MS. Misc. 594 in the Bodleian Library. They are (1) 'Tabulae de veris litteris dominicalibus et primacionibus ab origine mundi,' f. 146; (2) 'Kalendarium verum anni mundi,' ff. 15-20; (3) 'Tabulæ Solis versa atque perpetuæ,' f. 21.

[Tanner's Bibl. Brit-Hib. p. 530; Cat. of Laudian MSS.]

C. L. K.