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Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the end of the Reign of Henry VII
- Title:
- Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the end of the Reign of Henry VII
- Author:
- Hardy, T. D.
- Series:
- Rolls Series
- Location:
- London
- Notes:
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- CCCC MS 43 Brief description of CCCC MS 43 as one (among many others) containing William of Malmesbury’s De Gestis Pontificum Angorum, libri quatuor (book five Vita S. Aldhelmi, Scireburnensis Episcopi was added in the 16thC.), dating it to the 14th century, providing incipits and explicits for the prologue and the Gestis, a synopsis of the text and a biography of William of Malmesbury, pp. 151-6
- CCCC MS 46 Brief description of CCCC MS 46 as containing John of Salisbury’s Polycraticus, siue de Nugis Curialium et Vestigiis Phillosophorum, dating it to the 13th century and providing the incipits and explicits of the preface, prologue and books i-viii, and a brief synopsis of the text, pp. 421-3
- CCCC MS 50 Brief description of CCCC MS 50 as one (among many others) containing Le Brut, ke Maistre Wace translata de Latin en Franceis, de tut les Reis de Brittaigne, en vers, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and the explicit, pp. 428-31
- CCCC MS 51 Brief description of CCCC MS 51 as containing Ralph Diceto’s Abbreuiationes Chronicorum ab initio mundi ad an. 1147, undated, providing incipits and explicits to the prologue and the Historia, a critique of the historical value of the text and a biography of the author; it is said that the same text may be found in Lambeth MS 8, BL Royal 13.E.VI, BL Cotton Claudius E.III, BL Cotton Vespasian A.XXII and, possibly, Dublin, Trinity College, MS 174, pp. 231-2
- CCCC MS 66 Brief description of CCCC MS 66 as containing the Historia de Origine Anglorum et de Regnis eorum ab Adam unsque ad secundum Henricum, Imperatricis filium, qui regnauit in Anglia post pium et nobiliem Regem Sthahanum, et de omnibus Episcopatibus et Episcopis totius Angliae, pulchre et subtiliter composita, dating it to the 12th century; it is said that the same text (though not so complete) may be found in BL Cotton Caligula A.VIII and Durham B.ii.35, p. 257
- CCCC MS 70 Brief description of CCCC MS 70 as one manuscript (among many others) containing the Leges Willelmi Conquaestoris, dating it to the 14th century, providing the rubric, pp. 45-6
- CCCC MS 92 Brief description of CCCC MS 92 as one ms (among several others) containing Florence of Worcester’s Chronicon ex Chronicis, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and explicit and the history of the text, pp. 129-30
- CCCC MS 96 Brief description of CCCC MS 96 as containing the Chronicon Johannis Brompton, Abbatis Jorvalensis, ab anno S. Augustinus venit in Angliam, usque Mortem Regis Ricardi Primi, dating it to the 15th century, providing the incipits and explicits to the prologue and the Chronicon; it is said that the same text may be found in BL Cotton Tiberius XVI, pp. 539-40 States that the author of the chronicle in CCCC MS 96 draws on material from Bede, Henry of Huntingdon, William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, Ranulf Higden, Simeon of Durham, Ailred of Rievaux, Walter Hemingburgh, William of Newbury and Benedict, Abbot of Peterborough and uses extracts from a number of other works, pp. 539-40 Observes that it is more likely that John Brompton was the owner of CCCC MS 96 and not the compiler, and that although the chronicle had acquired its final form by the mid-14th century, it was probably based on a previous collection, possibly by someone with a Norwich connection, p. 540 Mention of the fact that the author of CCCC MS 96 probably took his apocryphal account of Thomas Becket’s mother being a Saracen princess from the manuscript of the Quadrilogus published in 1495 Cap. 2, p. 309 n.
- CCCC MS 100 Brief description of CCCC MS 100 as containing the Chronicon Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, dating it to the 17th century and providing the incipit and the explicit, p. 80
- CCCC MS 101 Brief mention of MS Cotton Vespasian B.IX as containing the Eulogium Davidis, Regis Scotiae, auctore Ailredo Rievallensi Abbate, a copy of which is found in CCCC MS 101, pp. 247-8 Brief description of CCCC MS 101 as one manuscript (among several others) containing Gulielmi Malmesburiensis de Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, undated, providing the incipt and explicit and a synopsis of the text, pp. 157-8
- CCCC MS 110 Brief discussion of the text Historiola de primo statu Landavensis Ecclesiae as found in BL Cotton Vespasian A.XIV and transcribed in CCCC MS 110, pp. 87-8
- CCCC MS 111 Brief description of CCCC MS 111 as containing at f. 37 Saewulfus de situ Hierusalem, sive Iter ejus ad Terram Sanctam, et descriptio ejusdem, dating it to the 12th century, providing the incipit and the explicit and a synopsis of the text and brief biography of the author, pp. 95-6
- CCCC MS 123 Brief description of CCCC MS 123 as one ms (among very many) containing the Epistolae Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi et Martyris, et aliorum (described in the existing catalogue as Epistolae Herberti de Bossam, tam in persona Thomae Becket quam in sua, ad Papam et alios, episcopos, et responsiones ad illas), pp. 314-18 nn.
- CCCC MS 129 Brief description of CCCC MS 129 ff. 33-80 as containing the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Reis Anglorum Ricardi primi; auctore, ut videtur, Ricardo, Canonico Sanctae Trinitatis Londoniensis, dating it to the 13th century, providing the title, rubric, incipit and explicit to the prologue and the Itinerarium and a synopsis of the text; it is said that the same text may be found in BL Cotton Faust A.VII, CUL Ff.i.25, Phillipps 3874 and BL Royal 14.C.X, pp. 500-506
- CCCC MS 135 Brief description of CCCC MS 135 as one ms (among several other) containing Sancti Anselmi, Cantuariensis Achiepiscopi, Epistolarum libri quatuor, undated, synopsis of the text, pp. 115-6 Brief description of CCCC MS 135 as containing Carmen in laudem Sancti Anselmi, Archiepiscopi Canruariensis, per Willelum de Cestria, undated, providing the incipit and explicit, pp. 113-4
- CCCC MS 138 Brief description of CCCC MS 138 as one ms (among very many) containing William of Jumieges’ Historiae Normannorum Libri VIII, undated, providing the rubric, the incipits and explicits to the epistola and books vii and viii and the Epitaphium Guilelmi Ducis Normannorum et Regis Anglorum and a synopsis of the text, pp. 10-21
- CCCC MS 139 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Historia fundationis Abbatiae S. Mariae Viginis Eboraci, A.D. 1088, auctore Stephano de Whitby, abbate ejusdem loci, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and explicit and a brief synopsis of the text and biography of the author; it is said that the same text may also be found in MS Bodl. NE.A.iii.20., pp. 49-50 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Continuatio Historiae Symeonis Dunelmensis, per Johannem Priorem Hagustaldensem, dating it to the 13th century, providing the title, incipit and explicit, pp. 258-9 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Descriptio viri venerabilis Aethelredi, Abbatis Rievallensis, de Bello inter Regem Scotiae et Barones Angliae apud Standardum juxta Alvertoniam, undated, providing the incipit, explicit and colophon and a synopsis of the text; it is said that the text may also be found in BL Cotton Titus A.XIX and Eccl. Ebor. xvi, pp. 205-6 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Descriptio Serlonis Monachi, Fratris Radulfi Abbatios de Parcho, de Bello inter Regem Scotiae et Barones Angliae, metrice, undated, providing the incipit and explicit, doubting the attribution to the monk Serlo made by Pits in favour of that by Walbran, pp. 202-3 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Epistola Archiepiscopi Turstini ad Willielmum Carboys de egressu monachorum Fontanensium e Coenobio Sanctae Mariae Eboracensis, dating it to the 13th century and providing the incipit and explicit and a synopsis of the text of the letter; it is said that the same text can be found in manuscripts CCC Oxon. 209 Bodl. 39, pp. 186-7 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Historia sanctae et suavis memoriae Symeonis, Monachi et Praecentoris Ecclesiae Sanct Cuthberi Dunelmi, de Regibus Anglorum et Dacorum, et creberrimis bellis, rapinis et incendiis eorum, post obitum Venerabilis Bedae, Presbyteri, fere usque ad obitum Regis Primi Henrici, filii Willielmi Nothi, qui Angliam adquisvit, id est, ccccxxix, annorum et iv. mensium, dating to the 12th century, providing the title, the incipit, explicit and colophon and a synopsis of the text; its is stated that it is unlikely that Simeon of Durham could have been the author, pp. 174-8 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Epistola Symeonis, Monachi Ecclesiae S. Cuthberti Dunelmi, ad Hugonem, Decanum Eboracesem, de Archiepiscopis Eboraci, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and the explicit; it is said that a (superior) version of the same text may be found in BL Cottom Titus A.XIX, p. 259 Brief description of CCCC MS 139 as containing the Historia piae memoriae Ricardi, Prioris Hagustaldensis Ecclesiae, de Gestis Regis Stephani, et de Bello Standardi, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and explicit and a synopsis of the text, p. 206
- CCCC MS 145 Brief description of CCCC MS 145 as one manuscript (among several others) containing the Life of St Wulfstan, dating it to the 14th century, providing the incipit and the explicit and attributing it to Robert of Gloucester, pp. 74-5 Brief description of CCCC MS 145 as one manuscript (among several others) containing A Poem in Old English, on the Life, Miracles, and Translation of S. Thomas of Canterbury, dating it to the 14th century; states that the text is an abridged translation of the Quadrilogus, pp. 365-6 Brief description of CCCC MS 145 as containing the Translation Sancti Thomae Martyris, dating it to the 14th century and providing the incipit and the explicit, p. 367 Brief description of CCCC MS 145 as containing King Henry’s Penance for St Thomas’s Death, dating it to the 14th century and providing the rubric and the incipit, p. 367
- CCCC MS 171 Brief description of CCCC MS 171 as one ms (among several others) containing Johannis Fordun Scoti-chronicon, sive Scotorum Historia, dating it to the 15th century, providing the incipit and observing that the ms is badly damaged, pp. 228-9
- CCCC MS 174 Brief description of CCCC MS 174 as containing the Nomina eorum quorum ope et auxilio Dux Willielmus Conquestor terram Angliae conquisivit anno Domini M.LXVI, undated, providing the incipit and the explicit; it is said that the same text is also found in Oriel College, Oxon, 46, BL Royal 8.B.VI, and BL Royal 13.E.IX, p. 4
- CCCC MS 181 Brief description of the text of Cronica Roberti Montensis, as found in CCCC MS 181, providing the rubric and the explicit and brief synopsis of the text and its sources, pp. 437-43 Brief description of CCCC MS 181 as one ms (among very many) containing Willelmi Calculi, Gemmeticensis monachi, Historiae Normannorum Libri VIII, dating it to the 15th century, providing the rubric, the incipits and explicits to the epistola and books vii and viii and the Epitaphium Guilelmi Ducis Normannorum et Regis Anglorum and a synopsis of the text, pp. 10-21
- CCCC MS 189 Brief description of CCCC MS 189 as containing the Evidentiae Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariae ab an. 616 ad annum 1100, dating it to the 14th century, providing the incipit and the explicit; stated that it is perhaps part of a larger work, the Actus Pontificum Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, auctore Gervasio Dorobernensi, pp. 89
- CCCC MS 190 Brief description of CCCC MS 190 as containing Giraldi Cambrensis libri duo de Vita et Persecutionibus Galfridi, Eboracensis Archiepiscopi dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit, explicit and a brief synopsis of the text, pp. 497-8
- CCCC MS 262 Brief description of CCCC MS 262 as containing Guilelmi Neubrigensis Historia, sive Chronica rerum Anglicarum, libris quinque, dating it to the 14th century, providing the rubric, incipts and explicits of the prologue and Historia, a synopsis of the text and a biography of the author; the same text may be found in manuscripts Stowe xlii, Bodl. Rawl. B.192, Cotton Vespasian B.VI, Lambeth 73, BL Royal 13.B.IX, Bodl. Digby 101, Bodl. 712, pp. 512-16
- CCCC MS 266 Brief description of CCCC MS 266 as one ms (among very many) containing Magistri Petri Blesensis, Bathoniensis Archidiaconi Epistolae, undated, providing a brief account of the letters and a list of Peter of Blois’ other works, pp. 553-58. 137 letters are preserved in this manuscript, pp. 553-58
- CCCC MS 273 Brief description of CCCC MS 273 as containing Arnulphi Eiscopi Lexoviensis ad diversos Epsitolae, undated; it is said that the text of the letters may also be found in St John’s, Oxon. cxxvi, Bodl. Digby 209, Bodl. F.ii.5., p. 426
- CCCC MS 275 Brief description of CCCC MS 275 as containing the Vita S. Thomae, Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and the explicit; states that the prologue and much of the text is compiled from Alan of Tewkesbury and Herbert of Bosham, p. 362
- CCCC MS 280 Brief description of CCCC MS 280 as containing the Henrici Huntindoniensis Epistola ad Walterum de Mundi Contemptu; siue de Episcopis et viris illustribus sui temporibus, providing the incipt and explicit, pp. 279-80 Brief description of CCCC MS 280 as one ms (among very many others) containing Henrici Huntindoniensis Historiarum Libri Octo, dating it to the 13th century, providing the title, rubric, incipit and explicit to the prologue and the Historia, a brief discussion of the sources for the text and biography of the author; stated that the CCCC MS 280 is in ten books and ends in the year 1135, pp. 269-79 Speculation that CCCC MS 280 may be a copy of Henrici Huntendunensis Historia Anglorum, in a version dating to c. 1135 and bringing the Historia up to the death of Henry I, p. 191
- CCCC MS 281 Brief description of CCCC MS 281 as containing the Expeditio contra Turcos circa annum 1094, dating it to the 12th century and providing the incipit and the explicit, p. 68
- CCCC MS 288 Brief description of CCCC MS 288 as one ms (among very many) containing the Epistolae Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi et Martyris, et aliorum, undated, pp. 314-18 Brief description of CCCC MS 288 as containing Alani, Prioris Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, Epsitolae ad Henricum III (i.e.II) ad Regem Franciae et alios, dating it to the 12th century and providing a synopsis of each letter and its recipient, p. 452
- CCCC MS 295 Brief description of CCCC MS 295 as one ms (among very many) containing the Epistolae Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi et Martyris, et aliorum, dating it to the 13th century; it is stated that this is the text of Alan of Tewkesbury and contains c. 565 epistles of which 535 appear in the Lupus edition of 1682 and the remainder are from John of Salisbury, pp. 314-18 nn.
- CCCC MS 298 Brief description of CCCC MS 298 as containing The Life of Thomas Beckett, translated by Laurence Wade, Monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1497, providing the incipits and explicits and the texts of the rubrics and colophon; states that the text is from Herbert of Bosham and not the Thomas referred to by the translator, pp. 363-5 Brief description of CCCC MS 298 as containing the Attestatio Willelmi Primi de Primatu Cantuariensis Ecclesiae, cum subscriptionibus Episcoporum et Abbatum, undated, providing the incipit and the explicit; it is said that the same text may also be found in BL Cotton Domitian A.V, p. 22
- CCCC MS 299 Brief description of CCCC MS 299 as one ms (among many others) containing Ivonis Carnotensis Epistolae selectae ad res Anglicanas spectantes, dating it to the 13th century and providing a brief biography of Ivo and a description of some of the works attributed to him, pp. 124-7 Brief description of CCCC MS 299 (numbered 293 in error?) as one ms (among several others) containing Sancti Anselmi, Cantuariensis Achiepiscopi, Epistolarum (215), pp. 115-6
- CCCC MS 316 Brief description of CCCC MS 316 as containing the Epistola Gerardi ad Anselmum, dated 1583, providing a biography of Gerard, pp. 101-2
- CCCC MS 318 Brief description of CCCC MS 318 as one ms (among many others) containing at ff. 140-297 theVita Anselmi, Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, auctore Eadmero, dating it to the 13th century, providing the rubric, incipit and explicit to the preface and the Vita, synopsis of the text and Eadmer’s other works, pp. 108-11
- CCCC MS 329 Brief description of CCCC MS 329 as containing the Historia Waldei, quondam Norfolchiae et Suffolchiae Regis eximii, de Gallis et Anglis verbis in Latinum translata, dating it to the 15th century; stated to be both unique and of no historical value, p. 27
- CCCC MS 339 Brief description of CCCC MS 339 as containing the Historiae Angliae a Bruto ad primordia regni Stephani Regis, auctore Ricardo Diuisiensi, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and explicit, doubting the attributed authorship and attributing it instead to an anonymous scribe from Winchester Abbey; it is said that the text from 519 AD to 1138 AD may also be found in BL Cotton Domitian A.XIII, pp. 201-2 Brief description of CCCC MS 339 as containing the Chronicon Ricardi Diuisensis, Monachi Wintoniensis, de Rebus tempore R. Ricardi I. et de Gestis ipsius in Palaestina; ad Robertum, olim illius ecclesiae Priorem, qui se in Cartusiam receperat, dating it to the 13th century, providing incipts and explicits for the prologue and the Chronicon, a synopsis of the text and a biography of the author; it is said that the same text may also be found in BL Cotton Domitian A.XIII, pp .491-2
- CCCC MS 350 Brief description of CCCC MS 350 as containing De Fundatione et Successione Ecclesiae Wintoniensis, dating this copy to the 16th century and observing that the document is mutilated at the beginning and end and that the text begins in the middle of Cap. 2 and ends in 1142; it is stated that the text is an extract from Thomas Rudborne jnr.’s Historia Major and gives a brief biography of Rudborne; it is said that the same text can also be found in the manuscripts Lambeth 183, BL Cotton Galba A. XV, Cotton Nero A. XVII and Harley 156-2, p. 204
- CCCC MS 366 Brief description of CCCC MS 366 as one ms (among very many) containing Magistri Petri Blesensis, Bathoniensis Archidiaconi Epistolae, undated, providing a brief account of the letters and a list of Peter of Blois’ other works. Note: 115 letters are preserved in this manuscript, pp. 553-58
- CCCC MS 383 Brief description of CCCC MS 383 as one ms (among many others) containing the Leges Willelmi Conquaestoris, undated, providing the rubric, pp. 45-6
- CCCC MS 400 Brief description of CCCC MS 400 as one ms (among several others) containing the Cambriae Descriptio, auctore Silvest. Giralso Cambrense, dating it to the 13th century, providing the incipit and explcit to the preface and the descriptio and a synopsis of the text, pp. 466-7 Brief description of CCCC MS 400 as one ms (among several others) containing the Itinerarium Cambriae, seu laboriosae Beldewini Cantuarinesis Archiepiscopi per Walliam legationis accurata descriptio, auctore Silvestro Giraldo Cambrense, dating it to the 16th century, providing the incipit and explcit to the preface and the itinerarium and a synopsis of the text, p. 466
- CCCC MS 408 Brief description of CCCC MS 408 as containing the Vita Henrici Archidiaconi Huntendunensis, authore Johanne Capgravio, undated, providing the incipt and explicit; it is said that the same text may be found in BL Cotton Tiberius A.VIII, p. 280
- CCCC MS 425 Brief description of CCCC MS 425 as containing the Legenda S. Remigii, Episcopi Lincolniensis in Anglia. Auctore Giraldo Cambrensi, dating it to the 13th century, providing incipits and explicits to the preface, prologue and the Vita and a brief synopsis of the text, pp. 65-6 Brief description of CCCC MS 425 as containing Giraldi Cambrensis Legenda Remigii undated and providing a brief synopisis of the text, pp. 558-9 Brief description of CCCC MS 425 as containing at pp. 91-159 the Vita S. Hugonis of Giraldus Cambrensis, dating it to the early 13th century, providing the capitula, the incipits and explicits of the prologue and the Vita, pp. 548-9
- CCCC MS 432 Brief description of CCCC MS 432 as containing the Polichronitudo Basileos, sive Historia Belli quod Ricradus gessit contra Saracenos, Gallice, undated, providing the incipit and a synopsis of the text, pp. 489-90
- CCCC MS 438 Brief description of CCCC MS 438 as containing Gervasii Dorobernensis Mappa Mundi, dating it to the 14th century, providing a brief synopsis of the text, pp. 536-7
- CCCC MS 470 Brief description of CCCC MS 470 as containing at f. 422 the Historia de Expeditione Francorum, Anglorum, et variarum nationum ad obsidendum Ulissipona in Portugalia, tempore Hidlefonsi Regis, per Osbernum, undated, providing the title, incipit and explicit and a detailed synopsis of the text, pp. 230-31
- CCCC MS 481 Brief description of CCCC MS 481 as containing De Brut is Animalibus et Volatilibus, undated, attributed to Odo of Cirington, with a brief biography of the author, pp. 427-8
- CCCC MSS 17, 275 and 467 Brief description of CCCC MS 177 as containing the Vita et Passio S. Thomae, Achiepiscopi Cantuar. composita per Dom. Joannem de Grandisono, Episcopum Exoniensem, dating it to the 16th century and offering the description penitus exisa, primus et ultima pagina exceptis, providing the incipit and explicit and the colophon and a brief synopsis of the text and biography of the author; it is said that the text can also be found in manuscripts CCCC 275, CCCC 467, BL Harley 5441, Bodl. C.5.3, Vatican Christin. 623, Students’ Library Eng. Coll. Rome I.z, pp. 356-7
- CCCC MSS 177, 467 and 275 Brief description of CCCC MS 275 as containing at ff. 217-34 the Vita et Passio S. Thomae, Achiepiscopi Cantuar. composita per Dom. Joannem de Grandisono, Episcopum Exoniensem, dating it to the 15th century, providing the incipit and explicit and the colophon and a brief synopsis of the text and biography of the author; it is said that the text can also be found in manuscripts CCCC 177, CCCC 467, BL Harley 5441, Bodl. C.5.3, Vatican Christin. 623, Students’ Library Eng. Coll. Rome I.z, pp. 356-7 Brief description of CCCC MS 177 as containing the Causa Exili et Matyrii Beati Thomae Martyris, undated, providing the incipit and the explicit; it is said that the same text may also be found in manuscripts Bodl. Digby 196, BL Cott. Galba E.IV, Cotton Claudius E.VIII, Cotton Galba E.III, BL Royal 11.A.I (extracts only), pp. 383-4
- CCCC MSS 178 and 101 Brief description of CCCC MS 101 as containing at p. 134 Numerus Navium Copiarumque omnium quibus Angliam appulit, devicitque Guilelmus Normannus, dating this copy to the sixteenth century, providing the incipit and the explicit and a synopsis of the text; it is said that the same text can also be found in manuscripts Hyp. Bodl. 93 (12th century), Ashmol. 865, CCCC 178 and BL Royal 14 B.I; stated that doubts have been raised as to the reliability of the text but Hardy thinks it genuine, p. 1 Brief description of CCCC MS 178 as containing at f. 214 Numerus Navium Copiarumque omnium quibus Angliam appulit, devicitque Guilelmus Normannus, dating it to the sixteenth century, providing the incipit and the explicit and a synopsis of the text; it is said that the same text can also be found in manuscripts Hyp. Bodl. 93 (12th century), Ashmol. 865, CCCC 101 and BL Royal. 14 B.I , p. 1
- CCCC MSS 241 and 452 Brief description of CCCC MS 241 as containing Edmundi Monachi Cantuariensis Historiae Novorum, sive sui saeculi, libri sex, dating it to the 16th century, providing the incipit for the preface, and incipit and explicit of the Historia, a synopsis of the text and a brief biography of the author; it is said that the same text can be also be found in BL Cotton Titus A. IX, CCCC 452, Arundel 31, Lambeth 175 and Harley 357, pp. 144-7
- CCCC MSS 452 and 341 Brief description of CCCC MS 452 as containing Eadmeri Monachi Cantuariensis Historiae Novorum, sive sui saeculi, libri sex, dating it to the 12th century, providing the incipit for the preface, the incipit and explcit of the Historia, a synopsis of the text and a brief biography of the author; it is said that the same text can be also be found in BL Cotton Titus A.IX, CCCC 341, Arundel 31, Lambeth 175 and BL Harley 357, pp. 144-7
- Volume:
- II
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- Book
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