Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 281: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae. Annals (Incarnation-1339) etc. Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt). Gesta Francorum

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 281: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae. Annals (Incarnation-1339) etc. Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt). Gesta Francorum
Alternate Title:
Galfr. Monumethensis. Annales, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 2 + 79 + 54 + 22
Dimensions:
255 Height (mm) and 175 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Table of contents:
  • Historia regum Britanniae
  • Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis
  • Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt)
  • Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum
Description:
CCCC MS 281 is a manuscript of diverse texts made up of three distinct volumes copied between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The material contained within the codex is wide-ranging but broadly historical in nature. It includes a copy of Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), an anonymous Annal from the birth of Christ to the mid-fourteenth century, an extract from the Latin version of the account of the death of Edward II attributed to Thomas de la More (fl. mid-fourteenth century) and historical documents relating to King Edward I's relations with Scotland. The manuscript has sometimes been described as having once been in the possession of the Benedictine abbey of St Modwenna in Burton-on-Trent, but Nasmith concluded, on the basis of the text of the Annals, that they were written at the Cluniac house of St Andrew's, Northampton.
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