London. British Library, Harley MS 225

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
Library
London. British Library
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  • British Library, Harley MS 225
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Language
  • Latin
  • Old French
Title
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Geoffroi de Monmouth (1100?-1154)
    Original form
    • Geoffrey of Monmouth, c 1100-c 1154, Bishop of St Asaph
    Other form
    • Gaufridus Monumetensis
    • Geoffroi de Monmouth (1100?-1154)
    • Gaufridus Monemutensis
    • Galfridus Monemutensis (1100?-1154)
    • Gaufrido Monemuthensi
    • Gaufridus de Monemuta
    • Geoffroi de Monmouth 1100?-1154
    • Galfredus Monumetensis 1100-1154
    • Geoffrey, de Monmouth
    • Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
    • Author: Galfredus, Monumetensis
    • Geoffrey of Monmouth
    • Various authors, including Geoffrey of Monmouth
    • Galfredus <Monumetensis>
    • Geoffrey of Monmouth - ca. 1100-1154 - auteur
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Description
  • ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum ( Historia Regum Britanniae ) , including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille) , with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'La lupart evassaillant la Roiaume de Ffraunce serra tiel et si fier'. Decoration:One large initial in blue, with light brown, red and green (f. 3r). Large initials in light brown, red, green or blue, occasionally with reserved line or minor penwork decoration in the same or an alternate colour. Rubric (f. 41r) and line fillers in red.Quire marks and quire signatures (consecutive letters).
Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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