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London, British Library, MS Harley 3859
- Latin
- s. xiex/xiiin
- Non-Celtic manuscripts
- vellum
Miscellany of late antique and early medieval Latin texts. It contains the earliest extant copy of the Historia Brittonum together with a text of the Annales Cambriae and a set of Welsh genealogies, which were both interpolated into the Historia after the section occasionally referred to as the ‘northern history’. A text of possible Irish interest is that of the Cosmographia of Aethicus Ister.
The main hand responsible for the greater part of the manuscript.
The hand responsible for copying Book 7 of the Saturnalia on ff. 147r–168v. It is quite similar to hand A, if smaller in script, and probably contemporary with it. The hand may be that of an assistant hand, or belong to the same scribe, who simply completed his work at a larger stage. The hand is attributed to a different scribe in the online catalogue of the British Library, while Guy (2020) seems to prefer the latter possibility.
Hand responsible for Invectiva in Ciceronem on ff. 169v-173r.
Hand responsible for Historia Brittonum and other texts of Welsh interest on ff. ff. 174-197.
Hand responsible for the Cosmoographia of Aethicus Ister on ff. 253-285.
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