Thomas Walsingham — c. 1400; English
MS. Douce 299
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Thomas Walsingham — c. 1400; English
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 299
Date
c. 1400
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
v + 119leaves
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
St Albans, Hertfordshire, Benedictine abbey of St Alban: Bodl. MS Douce 299 has quires a–o and Rawlinson D. 358 has quires q–y of the same St Albans manuscript. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
Bodl. MSS Douce 299 and Rawlinson D. 358 are parts of the same volume. (MLGB3)
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
'Historia magni & nobilis principis Alexandri'
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 299
Summary
In five books, with a prologue and lists of chapters: prol. beg. 'Historiam magni principis': text beg. 'Inter ceteras mundi partes': the authors from which the present compilation was made are enumerated in the prologue. M. Paul Meyer (Alexandre le Grand, 1886, ii. 57, 63) has investigated this volume, which is the unique MS. of an attempt to combine the Epitome of Julius Valerius with a fabulous history compiled at St. Alban's abbey. The author's name began with T, as the prologue shows: and his reference to Ralph Higden (fol. 1) shows that he wrote probably in the second half of the 14th cent.
Date
written in about A.D. 1400, in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
119 Leaves
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Collection contents
'Historia magni & nobilis principis Alexandri'
