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Historical miscellany : [manuscript]

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Description: Part 1. ff. 1-25v. [Geoffrey of Monmouth] Historia regum Britanniae. Incipit: //deinde hortabatur Britones ad insequendum festinatum triumphum promittens. Explicit: cum non habeant illum librum Britannici sermonis quem Walterus Oxonfordensis archidiaconus ex Britannia advexit quem de historia eorum veraciter editum in honore predictorum principum hoc modo in latinum sermonem transferre curavi. Latin. A. Griscom, ed., The Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London 1929) 321-536, Bk. 4, 13-Bk. 11; present manuscript noted on pp. 571, 584. Part 1. f. 25v. Hec sunt nomina Regum Anglie et tempora regni illorum Kings of Britain. Incipit: Primus rex Anglie hyne vocabatur, hic regnavit xxxviii annis. Explicit: henricus vitus filius eius. Rubric: Hec sunt nomina Regum Anglie et tempora regni illorum. Latin. List of the kings of Britain from Ine to Henry VI (1421-71) with the lengths of their reigns; the last seven, Edward I-Henry VI, added to the original list in a different colored ink. Part 1. f. 26r-v. D[e Re]gibus Anglie post conquestum Kings of Britain. Incipit: Sanctus Edwardus confessor Rex Anglorum quia filium nec filiam fratrem vel sororem habuit. Explicit: duxit in uxorem Isabellam filiam Regis francie//. Rubric: D[e Re]gibus Anglie post conquestum. Latin. To Edward II and Edward III; lower edge of sheet destroyed. Part 1.ff. 27-28v. Prophetia de Rege Edwardo iiio et de sequela sua Prophecy. Incipit: Tunc suscitabit dominus in Britannia aprum in foresta ventosa et erit iuvenis in tempore suo coronam saxonum portabit in vita patris sui. Explicit: usque ad tempus portabit et post illud tempus cessabunt Reges esse quasi ubique et erit novum seculum. Rubric: Prophetia de Rege Edwardo iiio et de sequela sua. Latin. Political prophecy on Edward III as the boar; other figures are "foresta ventosa" (Windsor), "in mari mortuo" (Roger Mortimer), "retrogradus cancer" (King Philip of France), "lilium" (France), "Aquila" (?), "porcellus" (the Black Prince), "flores deliciarum" (England?), "gens sine capite" (?); notes in the margins in the hand of the scribe are "Bellum de hog[? cropped]" (? Sluys, 1340), "Bellum de Cressy" (1346), "Obsidio calesie" (1348), "Pestilencia magna" (1348-50), "Captatio Regis Francorum" (1356). Part 1. ff. 29-37; f. 37v, blank. Incipit prologus fratris Nicholai Trevet de ordine predicatorum in Annales Regum Anglie qui a Comitibus Andegavensibus suam traxerunt originem secundum lineam masculinam. Incipit: Ut autem comodius iuxta nostram intencionem. Explicit: concessum est eis ut si vacantes ecclesie eos vocarent earum fierent presules. Mortuo Ricardo episcopo Londoniensi//. Rubric: Incipit prologus fratris Nicholai Trevet de ordine predicatorum in Annales Regum Anglie qui a Comitibus Andegavensibus suam traxerunt originem secundum lineam masculinam. Latin. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 3149. T. Hog, ed., Fratris Nicholai Triveti Annales. English Historical Society 9 (London 1845) 1-54, ending unfinished at the year 1163. Part 2. ff. 38-45v; f. 46 blank. Treatise on Chess. Incipit: Seignurs une poy entendez/ vous qi les gius d'eches amez/ Et ieo une partis vous dirray/ Selonc ce j'apris ay. Explicit: et plus pres de son Roc et issi la suyera d'eques ac mat. French. Treatise on the game of chess, in verse alternating with 10 prose sections, and 12 diagrams in red and black of model moves. See description by Warner and Gilson of London, Brit. Lib., Roy. 13.A.XVIII. A. Långfors, Les Incipit des poèmes français antérieurs au XVIe siècle (Paris [1917]) p. 383. Part 2. ff. 46v-54v. [Petrus Alphonsi] De disciplina clericali. Incipit: Ennok philosophus qui lingua arabica cognominatur edric filio suo dixit. Explicit: laminam vidit mar//. Latin. PL 157:671-705, here with all 32 tales complete and in the order described by Ward, Cat. of Romances 2:235-47; the lower margin of the last leaf badly deteriorated with loss of text, leaving only enough to show that this copy originally ended with the Epitaph in the Cemetery.

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