Manuscripts
f. 134v– f. 211vb.i
[Historia regum Britanniae]
extractHeading/rubric: ‘Cronica Galfridi Monumentensis. Incipit Ystoria Britonum’
f. 155r
marg.Incipit: ‘Ora pro Popultoun’
f. 155v
marg.Incipit: ‘anima fratris Robert de Popultoun illa quiete perfruatur, amen, amen’
Written, according to Friedman, by an amuensis after Poppleton’s death.
f. 172r.marg– f. 173v.marg
An incomplete commentary is added to the outer and bottom margins of the text of Book VII, the Prophetiae Merlini. The texts of this commentary from the present MS and from BNF 6233 and BL Claudius B vii are edited by Jacob Hammer in Speculum 10 and 15.
f. 211vb.i
[Historia regum Britanniae]
(section)Explicit: ‘Explicit Galfridi Cronica Monumentensis in Historiam Britonum. Sequitur continuatio regum Saxonum secundum Cronicas Alfridi Beuerlacensis et Henrici Huntingdon’Hand (Poppleton?) [Robert of Poppleton]
According to Friedman, the explicit is written by Poppleton.
f. 211vb.i
colophonIncipit: ‘Ora pro Popilton qui me compilauit Eboraci’Hand (Poppleton?) [Robert of Poppleton]
The rubric continues with a prayer/colophon.
Geoffrey of Monmouth