Manuscripts
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
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
Continuatio regum Saxonum secundum Cronicas Alfridi Beuerlacensis et Henrici Huntingdon