Manuscripts
f. 97ra– f. 106v.11
[Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem]
Hand (ff. 33–106)
Fictional letter from Alexander to Aristotle on the wonders of India. No heading. The text breaks off on f. 106v. Marginal notes occur, e.g. on ff. 103v, 104r.
Trojan War
A scribe associated with Poppleton continues the Epistola with material relating to the Trojan war.
f. 106v.11– f. 108ra
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Incipit metrum in destructione Trojanorum’Hand (ff. 106v-133va?)
Versification of Dictys Cretensis’ De excidio Troiae.
f. 108ra– f. 111
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Heading/rubric: ‘Historia Daretis Trojanorum Frigii de Graeco translata in Latinum a Cornelio nepote Salustii’Hand (ff. 106v-133va?)
A summary of the Historia Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae.
f. 111v– f. 120va
f. 119va.i– f. 119vb
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
f. 120va.i– f. 132vb
[Polychronicon (Ranulf Higden)]
extractHeading/rubric: ‘Incipit praefatio in historia Brittanorum extracta a libro qui dicitur Polichronicon’Hand (ff. 106v-133va?)
Alexander and the wonders in the East