Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27 is a composite manuscript at the

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. It was formed by adding a 14th-century

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book to a compendium of material from 12th-century northern England (items 1 to 11 in the Contents). The latter compendium had once been part of Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 66. With its original content, it had at one time been at

Sawley Abbey Sawley Abbey was an abbey of Cistercian monks in the village of Sawley, Lancashire, in England (and historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Created as a daughter-house of Newminster Abbey, it existed from 1149 until its dissolution in 1 ...

, though it was probably produced somewhere else, perhaps

Durham Durham most commonly refers to: *Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham *County Durham, an English county *Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States *Durham, North Carolina, a city in No ...

. It is a source for the ''Durham'' poem, which describes the city and its relics. Ff. 1.27 as a whole came together in the 15th century or later, but pages 1 to 236 are earlier; and paleographic evidence suggests that, with the exception of a continuation of

Gildas Gildas (Breton: ''Gweltaz''; c. 450/500 – c. 570) — also known as Gildas the Wise or ''Gildas Sapiens'' — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic ''De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae'', which recounts ...

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De excidio Britanniae ''De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae'' ( la, On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, sometimes just ''On the Ruin of Britain'') is a work written in Latin by the 6th-century AD British cleric St Gildas. It is a sermon in three parts condemning ...

'' dating to the 14th century, its material shares the same origin. Ff. i 27 and Corpus Christi 66 manuscripts probably had a common origin with Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 139 ("CCCC 139") as well, part of Ff. 1.27 being written in the same hand as part of 139's version of the ''

Historia Regum The ''Historia Regum'' ("History of the Kings") is a historical compilation attributed to Symeon of Durham, which presents material going from the death of Bede until 1129. It survives only in one manuscript compiled in Yorkshire in the mid-to-lat ...

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Most of the rest afterward is material relating to Wales.''Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in theLibrary of the University of Cambridge'', vol. ii pp. 319–320, 326–29

Notes

References

* * * {{citation , editor-last = South , editor-first = Ted Johnson , title = Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: A History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of His Patrimony , series= Anglo-Saxon Texts No 3 , place = Cambridge , publisher = D. S. Brewer , year = 2002 , isbn = 0-85991-627-8

External links

CCCC MS 66A (parkerweb.stanford.edu)
12th-century manuscripts Chronicles about England in Latin Manuscripts held by the University of Cambridge