Roger of Wendover, Roger of Howden, Henry Kirkstead (?) — 14th century, beginning; English
MS. Douce 207
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Roger of Wendover, Roger of Howden, Henry Kirkstead (?) — 14th century, beginning; English
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 207
Associated place
England
Date
14th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iv + 244leaves, in double columns
Decoration
Fine historiated initial
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
'Flores Historiarum' by Roger of Wendover
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 207
Summary
'... Liber qui Flores Historiarum intitulatur', with prologue: at end (fol. 213v) 'Huc usque scripsit Cronica dominus Rogerus de Wendoure. | Cernis completas hic nostro tempore metas. | Si plus forte petas. tibi poste[r]a nunciet etas.'.
This and the damaged Cottonian MS. Otho B. V. are the only copies of Roger of Wendover's work, which extends from the Creation to A.D. 1235, but there are short lacunae after fols. 72, 139, affecting A.D. 878-894 and 1191-2. At fol. 214 are copied in by the same hand two large fragments of Roger of Hoveden's Annals A.D. 1187-91 ('Imprimis uenerunt episcopi & abbates'--'conuenit in hunc modum', Stubbs's ed. iii. 9-134: 'Victoriam habuit ... Willelmus de Mandeuille', ibid. ii. 321-345).
A 14th-cent. hand has added:
(fol. 231) a short epitome of the Chronicle of Matthew of Westminster, 1325
(fol. 235v) a short account of early British history, based on Geoffrey of Monmouth, beg. 'In diebus Hely'
(fol. 237) the greater part of John Boston of Bury's Speculum Coenobitarum (From the beginning to 'qui dicitur Paradysus', pp. 157-181, ed. Hall).
'W. Saunders' (fol. 240v: 16th cent.).
Date
written chiefly in about A.D. 1300 in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
244 leaves, in double columns
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Collection contents
'Flores Historiarum' by Roger of Wendover
