Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Hierosolymitana; Historia Danica; Pseudo-Cornelius Nepos, Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri; Historia Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
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Contents: ff. 2r-59r: Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1046, d. 1130), Historia Hierosolymitana (The History of Jerusalem). ff. 59r-63v: Historia Danica (The Danish History). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and trans...
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
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This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
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Western Manuscripts
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English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
"STEPHANI regis vita": extracts, chronologically arranged, from the Gesta Stephani (ed. Duchesne), Orderious Vitalis, Henry of Huntingdon, and other chronicles, chiefly taken from printed editions. With a few marginal notes by Sir Roger Twysden (ob. 1672). Paper; ff. 218. XVIIth cent. Folio. St...
"JOHANNIS regis vita" : extracts, chronologically arranged, from Roger de Hoveden, Matthew Paris, Ralph de Coggeshall, and other chronicles, etc., chiefly taken from printed editions. With a few marginal notes by Sir Roger Twysden. Paper; ff. 333. XVIIth cent. Folio. John of England: Extracts f...
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum; Sermons
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This manuscript from c. 1200 originates from the Augustinian priory of St Mary, Newburgh, in North Yorkshire. It contains the works of the abbey’s most prolific author: the Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English Affairs) by William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. in or after 1198). The Histori...
1. FORM of resignation of the crown by Richard II. [29 Sept. 1399], followed by the "protestacio regis Ricardi ante resignacionem," the challenge of the crown by Henry, Duke of Lancaster., and his speech after election as Henry IV. The first two articles in Latin, the others in English. See Rot....
GENEALOGICAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Beg. "Veterum cronicoriim de successione regum anglie ordo hic insequitur." An English copy, slightly imperfect, i...
GENEALOGICAL HISTORY of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, A.D. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper; ff. 39. XVIIth cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin "decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hic incipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, a...
"GESTA BRITANNICA, præsortim Anglorum, adjectis aliquot observationibus, maxime in iis quæ, ad ecclesiam a temporibus retroactis ad A.D. mdcxlviii [Jan. 1648/9] spectant."The work, which is apparently autograph, is divided into ten books, the last three (ff. 211b-362) containing the reigns of Ja...
