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• Résumé : CCCC MS 363 contains a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the Historia Brittonum commonly attributed to the figure known as Nennius. The text was described in error in a later sixteenth-century note as the work of Gildas (sixth century), and this is how it remains described in M. R. James' catalogue, though James himself was aware of the misattribution and noted it in his description of the manuscript.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Nennius (attrib.) - author

  1r-13v - Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum

  Note : ff. 1r-2r are in a different (and later) hand from that of the text following

  incipit : (1r) Gildas vir grandis autoritatis in historia

  explicit : (2r) Et patet ex his paucis qualis sit processus libri illius quem de gestis brittonium scripsit auctor superius memoratus

  Note : (2r) An English anecdote (xvi) of Themistocles

  Note : f. 2v blank

  rubric : (3r) Hic incipit liber Gilde sapientis de gestis Britonum

  incipit : (3r) A principio mundi usque ad diluuium anni II. cc. xl. iio

  Note : On the margins of f. 5r are scribbled names (xvi): Robert, Gilbert, James, Hargreues, Seleres

  Note : Ends:

  explicit : (13r) quamvis habitaret solus in extremis finibus cosmi