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Chronicles of England : a metrical history
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Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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14849
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19670
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-2v: [Three notes on chronology, added in 15th cent.]: Notandum est quod secundum Cestrensem in libro polecronice libro 1o capitulo 4o octo fuerunt modi calculandi annos ... Novissime vero christiani Anno ab incarnatione domini supputarunt; Nota quod sex sunt etates seculi prima ab Adam usque ad noe ... a christo usque ad finem mundi; Et nota quod in presente volumine ... versus finem mundi. [ ff. 1v-2v blank] ff. 3-88: [Chronicle of England; dates entered in the margins; some fifteenth century side notes in the hand of the scribe; extensive notes by various hands of the seventeenth century in Latin and in English in the margins and on f. 88v]: Incipit: Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen est sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion dicebatur. Est autem insula illa beatissima omnium insularum. Cuius insule Brutus post expulsos gigantes habitator ... Explicit: In cuius rei evidenciam quidam legatus apostolicus in socia tunc existens dictam camisiam postmodum domino pape ut dicitur deferebat. [ff. 87v-88v blank].
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