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London. British Library, Stowe MS 56

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Source
The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
Library
London. British Library
Shelfmark
  • British Library, Stowe MS 56
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • 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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Description
  • 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 translation to Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110 BC, d. c. 25 BC). ff. 75r-87v: Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (The History of Apollonius King of Tyre). ff. 87v-99v: Historia Alexandri Magni (The History of Alexander the Great). ff. 99v-106v: Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem (The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle). ff. 106v-112r: Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi (The Letters of Alexander the Great and Dindimus King Of The Brahmans). ff. 112r-185v: Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain). The manuscript contains a number of additions:ff. 186r: various verses and notes in English in a 16th-century hand.[f. 186v is blank].Decoration:Numerous large initials in green or blue with red penwork decoration, or in red with green penwork decoration. Numerous large and small initials in red, green, or brown, some with penwork decoration, several extending into the margin. Highlighting of letters in red. Line-fillers in red.
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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  • Preferred form
    • France, Northern
    Original form
    • Northern France
    Other form
    • Nord de la France
    • Nord de la France (?) (Fichier Avril)
    • Nord de la France (?)
    • France (Nord).
    • France (Nord)
    • France (Nord) (?)
    • France (nord)
    • France (Nord : voir Faral, Bastin, Œuvres complètes de Rutebeuf, p. 26-27).
    • France (Nord de la France ?)
    • Nordfrankreich
    • França (nord)
    • Francia (norte)
    • Frankrijk (noorden)
    • Laon
    • France (nord : Laon ?)
    • França (nord: Laon?)
    • Nordfrankreich (Laon?)
    • Northern France (Laon?)
    • Francia (norte: Laon?)
    • Northern France (Paris?)
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • France, North
    • Northern France
    • Northern France
    • Northern France, Paris (?)
    • [Nordfrankreich]
    • Oberitalien und Nordfrankreich
    • Noord-Frankrijk (?)
    • Noord-Frankrijk
    • Nordfrankreich (Teil 2]
    • II./III. Nordfrankreich
    • Nordfrankreich (I)
    • [Noord-Frankrijk]
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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