Stowe MS 105

" HISTORIA ANGLIAE, maxime in iis quae ad ecclesiam spectant": the original MS. of part of the Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica of Nicholas Harpsfield, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Greek 1546, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1554, imprisoned under Elizabeth for refusing the oath of Supremacy till his death in 1583. Latin. The whole work extends from the foundation of the Church in Britain to the end of the 15th century, the first six centuries of the Christian era forming one book, while each of the succeeding centuries occupies a book by itself. In the present MS. the first book and 68 leaves of the second are wanting, the text beginning in the middle of the 26th chapter of the 7th century; and it ends with the close of the 11th century. It is written in two or three hands, and a large number of additions, corrections, and references are made in what is apparently the author's own hand (in one case, at the end of ch. 6 of the 11th century, a passage of some length is added, which does not appear in the printed text). The portion of the original MS. containing the first book and 58 leaves of the second exists in Arundel MS. 72. A corrected copy from the beginning of the work to the end of the 10th century exists in Royal MS. 13 C. ix. What is apparently the original MS. of the book containing the 15th century is in Arundel MS. 73, and fair copies of the 14th and 15th centuries together in Stowe MS. 106 and Royal MS. 13 C. xiii. Paper; ff. 357. Beloned to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms. Folio.

Nicholas Harpsfield, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Professor of Greek: Ecclesiastical History of England, [7th-11th centt.] and -[14th, 15th centt.]: 16th cent.: Lat.

England, Ecclesiastical History: N. Harpsfield's Historia Angliæ: 16th cent.

John Anstis, heraldic writer and Garter King of Arms: Notices of ownership in.