Manuscript of De nuptiis (9 books), with glossing from two main traditions.
- s. ix2
Quires 22 (ff. 168-175) and 23 (ff. 176-181) representing an originally separate manuscript and containing Book IX of Martianus Capella's De nuptiis with glosses from the Eriugenian tradition.
- s. ix?
- Anonymous [i²]
Composite manuscript whose constituent parts have all been dated to the 9th century and assigned an origin in northeastern France (see Bischoff).
- s. ix
- s. ix2/4
A purely hypothetical ‘very ancient book in the British language’ (quendam Brittanici sermonis librum uetustissimum) containing a history of the deeds of the kings of Britain, from Brutus to Cadwalladr, which Geoffrey of Monmouth alleges to have rendered into Latin when writing his Historia regum Britanniae, a work known for its audacious originality. Geoffrey mentions it in the preface to this work, where he claims to have received the book from Walter, archdeacon of Oxford. Whatever his source material may have been, or Walter’s role in supplying it, the claim that so much of this was written in the vernacular and contained in a single volume (implicitly, to which few would have access) is commonly regarded as a spurious appeal to authority.
Five vellum leaves.
- s. xvex
17th-century Irish manuscript containing materials concerning the history of Ireland, including a copy of the Annals of the Four Masters (ff. 36-86).
- s. xviiin
- s. xvii
- James Ware
