Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 363: 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.
Contents: Historia Brittonum

Alternative title	Gildas (Historia Brittonum)
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 13
Date created	[ca. 1475 - 1525]
Language	Latin; English
Material	Vellum
Layout	35 lines to a page
Height (mm)	248
Width (mm)	181
Collation	a quire of 12 (one canc. and two prefixed).
Writing	in a careful hand
Foliation	ff. 1-2 + 2a + 3-13
Research	The text is of course not Gildas, but the Historia Brittonum commonly known as Nennius. This copy is mentioned by Mommsen in his edition (p. 122) but is not collated.

M.R. James Date	xv late? or xvi early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vy249yp5930/MS_363.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fn217rb2114/363.pdf
Contains	Title Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum. 1r-13v Author Nennius (attrib.) 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 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 Ends: Explicit (13r) quamvis habitaret solus in extremis finibus cosmi
TJames	vac.
Stanley	19. 12
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sq763wg3834
Location	MS 363
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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