Royal MS 12 F II

CHRONOLOGICAL WORKS of Helpericus and Baeda, as in 12 D. IV, from which the present MS. is probably copied, though the rubricator evidently had access to another text. Contents:

1. 'Helperici liber' (this rubric is written over an erasure); agreeing in text and glosses with 12 D. IV, art. 4. Beg. 'Cum [quibusdam, interlined] fratribus adolescentioribus'. f. 2.

2. 'Liber venerabilis Bedae presbyteri de temporibus', as in 12 D. IV, art. 5. An omission in that MS. is supplied at the foot of f. 25 b. The chronicle (cap. lxvi) is here distinguished as 'liber secundus, qui cronica appellatur'. Begins and ends as in 12 D. IV. f. 22.

3. The epistle to Victhed, or Wihtred, on Easter. Without title. Begins as in 12 D. IV, art. 6. f. 114 b.

Vellum; ff. 117. 10³/₄ in. x 7 in. XII cent. Sec. fol. 'quod a ueteribus' or 'annos tantum'. Initials in red, one (f. 22) in red and green. Belonged (f. 2) to St. Albans Abbey, 'Hic est liber sancti Albani, quem qui ei abstulerit aut titulum deleuerit anathema sit. amen'. On f. 2 is also the 16th cent. library mark initial T with number 9. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1011'; cat. of 1666, f. 20; CMA. 8458, 8459, 8493.