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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 175 

rubric: Prophecia Sibille et Merlini uatis de Albania et Angl. et eorum euentibus   incipit: Regnum scocorum fuit inter cetera regna   44 lines (corresp. to ll. 1-44).

f. 6v  

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 175 

rubric: Prophecia Sibille et Merlini uatis de Albania et Angl. et eorum euentibus   incipit: Regnum scocorum fuit inter cetera regna   incl. Bruti posteritas cum Scotis associata   Poem. 44 lines, incl. the section that is also known separately as Bruti posteritas cum Scotis associata.

in section: f. 6va–f. 6vb

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Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 249 

s. xv?

f. 182r  

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Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College Library, MS 43 

ff. 185v–187r  

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Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk. vi. 16 

f. 156r  

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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 516 

Another MS of Irish provenance.

f. 46v  

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Glasgow, Mitchell Library, MS 308876 

To be verified.^{(1)n. 1} From the discussion in Murray Andrew Lucas Tod, The narrative of the Scottish nation and its late medieval readers: non-textual reader scribal activity in the MSS of Fordun, Bower and their derivatives (2015): 118, which is concerned with a late medieval reader (R²⁵) rather than the present text, it appears as though opening lines of the poem are quoted twice, with reference to Gildas and other sources.

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Leeds, Brotherton Library, MS Brotherton 29 

f. 18r  

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London, British Library, MS Cotton Claudius B VII 

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London, British Library, MS Cotton Titus D vii 

38 lines, interspersed with interpretations in French. s. xv.

f. 139r  

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London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian E vii 

36 lines. s. xv.

f. 87v  

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London, British Library, MS Harley 913 

Lines 37-42 only. MS of Irish provenance.

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London, British Library, MS Royal 9 B ix 

32 lines corr. to ll. 1-10, 17-32, 37-42.

f. 2r  

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London, British Library, MS Royal 20 A xi 

38 lines (ll. 1-32, 37-42), with additions and with interpretations in French. s. xiv.

f. 139r  

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London, College of Arms, MS Arundel 30 

rubric: Quedam metrice excerpta de prophecia Merlini Silvestris   incipit: Regnum Scottorum fuit inter cetera regna   38 lines. Provenance: Bury St Edmunds.

f. 5  

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Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS Lat. 228 

f. 53v  

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. hist. d. 4/B 

incipit: Regnum Scotorum fuit inter cetera regna   44 lines. Provenance: Bury St Edmunds.

f. 71r  

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D 248 

f. 5r  

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4126 

incipit: Regnum Scotorum fuit, inter cetera regna   incl. Bruti posteritas cum Scotis associata   Latin poem (56 st.) on a prophecy concerning the Scots and the Welsh.

in section: f. 9va.1–f. 9vb

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4126 

56 lines. This is the fullest or at least longest known version.

f. 9v  

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5178 

33 lines (corr. to ll. 1-13, 15-30, 45-48), somewhat rearranged (and with additions, according to Tatlock). It is here preceded by the Bruti posteritas section (ll. 31-44), which appears to have been attached to a poem about Edward I.

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San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 1345 

incipit: Regnum scottorum fuit inter cetera mundi   Dubschke, Cat., vol. 2: p. 576. s xivⁱⁿ.

f. 46v  

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Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 520 

incipit: Regnum Scotorum fuit inter cetera regna   

ff. 219r–221r