Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 363

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 363: Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum
Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum

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Summary: CCCC MS 363 contains a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the Historia Brittonum commonly attributed to the figure known as Nennius. The text was described in error in a later sixteenth-century note as the work of Gildas (sixth century), and this is how it remains described in M. R. James' catalogue, though James himself was aware of the misattribution and noted it in his description of the manuscript.

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1r-13v - Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum

Note: ff. 1r-2r are in a different (and later) hand from that of the text following

incipit: (1r) Gildas vir grandis autoritatis in historia

explicit: (2r) Et patet ex his paucis qualis sit processus libri illius quem de gestis brittonium scripsit auctor superius memoratus

Note: (2r) An English anecdote (xvi) of Themistocles

Note: f. 2v blank

rubric: (3r) Hic incipit liber Gilde sapientis de gestis Britonum

incipit: (3r) A principio mundi usque ad diluuium anni II. cc. xl. iio

Note: On the margins of f. 5r are scribbled names (xvi): Robert, Gilbert, James, Hargreues, Seleres

Note: Ends:

explicit: (13r) quamvis habitaret solus in extremis finibus cosmi

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