Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27 is a composite manuscript at the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...
. It was formed by adding a 14th-century
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as ''Bury,'' is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk District, West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St. Edmunds an ...
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, 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 i ...
, though it was probably produced somewhere else, perhaps
Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
*Durham, England, a cathedral city in north east England
**County Durham, a ceremonial county which includes Durham
*Durham, North Carolina, a city in North Carolina, United States
Durham may also refer to:
Places
...
. 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 (English pronunciation: , Breton language, Breton: ''Gweltaz''; ) — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and ''Gildas Sapiens'' (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century Britons (h ...
' ''
De excidio Britanniae
(English: ''On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain'') is a work written in Latin in the late fifth or sixth century by the British religious polemicist Gildas. It is a sermon in three parts condemning the acts of Gildas' contemporaries, both sec ...
'' 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 ...
''.
Contents
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
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* {{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