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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 363: Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 363: Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum

Description

Alternative title
Gildas (Historia Brittonum)
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 13
Date created
[ca. 1475-1525]
Language
Latin, English
Material
Vellum
Layout
35 lines to a page
Height (mm)
248
Width (mm)
181
Collation
a quire of 12 (one canc. and two prefixed).
Writing
in a careful hand
Foliation
ff. 1-2 + 2a + 3-13
Research
The text is of course not Gildas, but the Historia Brittonum commonly known as Nennius. This copy is mentioned by Mommsen in his edition (p. 122) but is not collated.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 363 contains a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the Historia Brittonum commonly attributed to the figure known as Nennius. The text was described in error in a later sixteenth-century note as the work of Gildas (sixth century), and this is how it remains described in M. R. James' catalogue, though James himself was aware of the misattribution and noted it in his description of the manuscript.
Contents
Historia Brittonum

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv late? or xvi early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vy249yp5930/MS_363.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fn217rb2114/363.pdf
Contains
  • Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum. 1r-13v
    Author
    Nennius (attrib.)
    Note
    ff. 1r-2r are in a different (and later) hand from that of the text following
    Incipit
    (1r) Gildas vir grandis autoritatis in historia
    Explicit
    (2r) Et patet ex his paucis qualis sit processus libri illius quem de gestis brittonium scripsit auctor superius memoratus
    Note
    (2r) An English anecdote (xvi) of Themistocles
    f. 2v blank
    Rubric
    (3r) Hic incipit liber Gilde sapientis de gestis Britonum
    Incipit
    (3r) A principio mundi usque ad diluuium anni II. cc. xl. iio
    Note
    On the margins of f. 5r are scribbled names (xvi): Robert, Gilbert, James, Hargreues, Seleres
    Ends:
    Explicit
    (13r) quamvis habitaret solus in extremis finibus cosmi
TJames
vac.
Stanley
19. 12
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 363

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