Description
Alternative title
Henry of Huntingdon
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 5 + 204
Date created
[ca. 1100-1299]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
30 lines to a page
Height (mm)
255
Width (mm)
175
Collation
5 flyleaves, 1 paper leaf, 1(8), 2(8), 3(10), 4(8) 5(10), 6(8)-22(8), 23(10), 24(8), 25(6).
Writing
a very fine bold script
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-5 + 5a + 6-209 + 209a-b + iii-iv
Provenance
The manuscript is the first of those mentioned by Arnold in his Introduction to his edition, xxxv. He thinks it probable that it belonged to St Augustine's, Canterbury, but I cannot identify it in the catalogue, and no mark survives.
Research
Used in Savile's edition.
Additions
The flyleaves (ff. 1r-5v) are blank but for a late table of contents (f. 1v).
On the paper leaf is Bale's account of Henry of Huntingdon (f. 5ar).
2 fo.
terita representaui
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 280 contains a copy of the text of the Historia Anglorum of Henry of Huntingdon (c. 1088-c. 1157), a chronicle written in England in the mid-twelfth century. In his edition of 1879 Arnold postulated that this manuscript was once in the library of St Augustine's, Canterbury, but M. R. James was unable to confirm this and Neil Ker rejected the thesis outright. The text as found in this manuscript has been used in the collation of the most recent edition of the text for material after 1138 by Greenway.
- Contents
- Historia Anglorum
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