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
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