Janus: Transcripts of medieval chronicles

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.2935	Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: Relation de la conference d'entre Monsieur l'Eveque de Condom et Monsieur Claude
MS Add.2942	Franz Oudendorp: Dictata in Pomponium Melam De Situ Orbis Terrarum
MS Add.2944-2962	James Bentham: Papers
MS Add.2966-2972	Heinrich Bullinger: dedications and sermons
MS Add.2977	Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
MS Add.2978	Transcripts of medieval chronicles
MS Add.2997	Notes on the comedies of Terence
MS Add.30	W. Hart: translation of Francois de Croy's 'Les Trois Conformities'
MS Add.3009	William Haywood: Ten sermons, preceded by a prayer for use in St John's College, Oxford
MS Add.3014	List of initia for Cambridge University Library Manuscripts Classes Dd to Ff, in approximate alphabetical order
MS Add.3015	List of Hebrew manuscripts in Cambridge University Library
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Transcripts of medieval chronicles

Title	Transcripts of medieval chronicles
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2978
Covering Dates	1700 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Includes: (fo. 2) 'Codices Quidam Manuscripti Historiae Britannicae et Anglicanae Partem Complectentes'; (fo. 2v) transcript from unspecified MS of Nennius, 'Historia Britonum'; (fo. 11) blank; (fo. 12) transcript from unspecified MS of part of a chronicle derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth; transcript from unspecified MS of Henry of Huntingdon, 'Epistola ad Warinum'; (fo. 15) blank; (fo. 16) transcript of 'Eulogium Historiarum', Bk 5, cap. 78-186, apparently from Trinity College Cambridge MS R.7.2; (fo. 94v) blank; (fo. 100) transcript of continuation of Florence of Worcester, apparently from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 92. Most of the sources have been edited.

Occasional marginal notes in 18th-cent. hands. Attached to flyleaf is list of contents by H. R. Luard. Notes by J. Lee on text at fo. 150.

Bookplates of John Haddon Hindley and J. Lee. 'Doctors Commons 1828. Repaired 1829'.

(fo. 2v) 'Messrs Howell & Stewart 1828 £3 13s 6d' (hand of J. Lee). Purchased of W. Ridler, Feb. 1890.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Transcripts of medieval chronicles, MS Add.2978

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