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Arundel MS 403
- Record Id:
- 040-002039686
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000073
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153686.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 403
- Title:
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two fragmentary Latin copies of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian.
Contents:
ff. 1r-10v: First fragment of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, containing part of book 5, and part of book 6, beginning ‘conano post hanc peticionem bellum ingerere’ and ending ‘hengistum abire’.
ff. 11r-18v: Second fragment of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, containing part of book 8, and part of book 9, beginning ‘-nimiter resistunt et inuicem’ and ending ‘Defuncto igitur hiis pendragon con-‘.
No decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039686 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 403 : Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0404]/040-002039686
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153686.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 140 mm (text space: 175 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 18 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 10 at the end); f. [iii]r has a watermark with the date 1794.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown half leather with the Howard family's coat of arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower cover, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘GALFRIDI MON. HIST. BRIT. FRAGM.’; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or France.
Provenance: An unidentified English owner, mid-14th century: marginal notes in Anglicana script throughout.
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover, inscribed in pencil 'XIII.7.2'). Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- England or France.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), Part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 117.
Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and John Alexander Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: Pitman, 1883–1910), I, p. 225.
Julia C. Crick, The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 5 vols (Cambridge: Brewer, 1985-1991), III (1989): A Summary Catalogue of the Manuscripts, pp. 144-145 (no. 89); IV (1991): Dissemination and Reception in the later Middle Ages, pp. 165, 187, 204, 217.
Michael D. Reeve (ed.) and Neil Wright (trans.), Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Britanniae] (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007) p. xl.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)