Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27

Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27 is a composite manuscript at the University of Cambridge. It was formed by adding a 14th-century Bury St Edmunds book to a compendium of material from 12th-century northern England (items 1 to 11 in the Contents). The latter compendium had once been part of Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 66. With its original content, it had at one time been at Sawley Abbey, though it was probably produced somewhere else, perhaps Durham. It is a source for the Durham poem, which describes the city and its relics.

Ff. 1.27 as a whole came together in the 15th century or later, but pages 1 to 236 are earlier; and paleographic evidence suggests that, with the exception of a continuation of Gildas' De excidio Britanniae dating to the 14th century, its material shares the same origin. Ff. i 27 and Corpus Christi 66 manuscripts probably had a common origin with Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 139 ("CCCC 139") as well, part of Ff. 1.27 being written in the same hand as part of 139's version of the Historia Regum.

Contents

Most of the rest afterward is material relating to Wales.

Notes

References

• A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1857
• Rollason, David, ed. (2000), Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, Ecclesie = Tract on the Origins and Progress of this the Church of Durham / Symeon of Durham, Oxford Medieval Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-820207-5
• South, Ted Johnson, ed. (2002), Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: A History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of His Patrimony, Anglo-Saxon Texts No 3, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, ISBN 0-85991-627-8

External links

• CCCC MS 66A (parkerweb.stanford.edu)

1. Cambridge University Library
2. De primo Saxonum adventu
3. Symeon of Durham
4. Sawley Abbey
5. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178
6. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139
7. Echidna (mythology)
8. Gerald of Wales
9. Erymanthian boar
10. Judgement of Paris
11. Matthew Paris
12. Antaeus
13. Giants (Greek mythology)
14. I syng of a mayden
15. Centaur
16. Enceladus (Giant)
17. Typhon
18. Libellus de exordio
19. Tethys (mythology)
20. Oceanus