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De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesie (William of Malmesbury)

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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.5.33

Glastonbury manuscript, including interpolations, together with annotations in later hands.

ff. 1r–18v

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Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 22934

According to Scott, a copy based on T but with readings from the CL version.

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London, British Library, MS Cotton Cleopatra C x

Copied from L.

ff. 72v–100r

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. hist. a. 2

“Selected chapters ... with either T or M as exemplar, which highlight the saints connected with the monastery” (Scott 1981: 38).

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 750

Glastonbury manuscript. A revised version consisting of a series of extracts based on an interpolated copy.

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Scott, John [ed. and tr.], The early history of Glastonbury: an edition, translation and study of William of Malmesbury’s De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesie, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1981.

Secondary sources (select)

Gransden, Antonia, “The growth of the Glastonbury traditions and legends in the twelfth century”, in: James P. Carley (ed.), Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian tradition, 44, Cambridge, Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2001. 29–53.

Krochalis, Jeanne E., “Magna tabula: the Glastonbury tablets”, in: James P. Carley (ed.), Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian tradition, 44, Cambridge, Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2001. 435–567.

Carey, John, “The finding of Arthur’s grave: a story from Clonmacnoise?”, in: John Carey, John T. Koch, and Pierre-Yves Lambert (eds), Ildánach Ildírech. A festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana, 4, Andover and Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 1999. 1–13.

Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen, “From Ynys Wydrin to Glasynbri: Glastonbury in Welsh vernacular tradition”, in: Lesley Abrams, and James P. Carley (eds), The archaeology and history of Glastonbury Abbey: essays in honour of the ninetieth birthday of C. A. Ralegh Radford, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1991. 301–315.