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- [c. 1700] (Creation)
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16 ff. (old pagination 1-6 and 7-10 on ff. 1-5 verso; old pagination 1-6 and 7-20 on ff. 7-16 verso; f. 6 recto-verso blank. Bound in incorrect order at NLW, ff. 4-5 should be located after f. 9, ff. 10-16 should be located after f. 3, as shown by the catchwords on ff. 3 verso and 9 verso and the headers on each page) ; 305 x 195 mm.
Repaired and bound at NLW.
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Copies of: (a) The concluding portion, from 1065 to the end, of the Historia de gestis regalibus regum britannie of Alfred of Beverley. This copy contains the additional paragraphs which are to be found in Peniarth MS 384 (ff. 1-3 verso, 10-16 verso); (b) Portions of the chronicle of Robert of Torigni: 1. Prologus Roberti de Torineio, beginning 'De Chronographia temporum descriptione ...' (ff. 7-8), 2. The letter of Henry of Huntingdon to Guerin le Breton ('Incipit Epistola Archidiaconi ad Warinum Britonem de regno Britonum ...') wherein he refers to a copy of a history of the British Kings by Geoffrey Arthur in the Abbey of Bec, in 1139 (ff. 8-9 verso and ff. 4-5 verso).
The Chronicle of Robert of Torigni is printed in Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I ..., edited from manuscripts by Richard Howlett, 4 vols (London, 1884-1889), IV (1889) [Rolls Series, vol. 82].
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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- Latin
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Latin.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Preferred citation: Bodewryd MS 17D.
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