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Continuatio regum Saxonum secundum Cronicas Alfridi Beuerlacensis et Henrici Huntingdon

f. 212ra–f. 212vb

[Brevis recapitulatio (Robert of Poppleton)] (section)Heading/rubric: ‘Breuis recapitulatio totius precedentie opusculi’Incipit: ‘Britones origine Troiani sed post malitiam’Explicit: ‘Expliciunt excerpta de istoribus Britonum.’Hand (Poppleton?) [Robert of Poppleton]

Robert of Poppleton offers a summary of Monmouth’s work, which he checks with other authors such as Alfred of Beverley (Annales) and Bede.

f. 212vb–f. 213ra

[Historia Anglorum (Henry of Huntingdon)] extract(section)Heading/rubric: ‘Incipit prefatio de historiis Anglorum’Explicit: ‘Explicit prefatio’Hand (Poppleton?) [Robert of Poppleton]

f. 213ra–f. 240rb

[Historia Anglorum (Henry of Huntingdon)] extract(section)Heading/rubric: ‘Incipiunt excerptiones de historiis Anglorum et unde Angli venerunt et originem duxerunt’

f. 213ra

colophonHeading/rubric: ‘Ora pro patre Roberto de Populton’

Colophon follows on from the previous rubric (Incipiunt ... duxerunt), but not apparently in Poppleton’s own hand (Friedman).

f. 240rb.i–f. 242ra

[Historia Anglorum (Henry of Huntingdon)] extract(section)

f. 242r–f. 252ra

[Annales (Alfred of Beverley)] extractHeading/rubric: ‘Incipiunt excerpta de gestis regum Normandorum in Anglia per Alfridum Beuerlacum’

Section on the Norman kings of England, up to the reign of King Henry IV.

f. 252ra

[Annales (Alfred of Beverley)] colophon(section)Explicit: ‘Explicit Hystoria magistri Alfridi thesaurii Beuerlacensis incipiens ad Brutum et finiens in Henricum 4tum annorum duorum milium ducentorum.’Rubricator