File Brogyntyn MS I.7 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]. - Geoffrey of Monmouth: Historia Regum Britanniæ

Following the rubricator's 'Incipit liber Bruti' at the foot of f. 1 were three or four other words, also in red, perhaps beginning 'Fratris ...', erased and written over in ink in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, the ink writing, also now more or less erased, apparently beginning 'Fratris Johannis [?T...at]'. '.5 [or q]. f. 1. de norwic' at the top of f. 1 (there may have been a line of writing above it, now cropped), in pale ink of fifteenth or sixteenth century; this is not a Norwich Cathedral pressmark. There are a few nota marks of the fifteenth century. A hand using rose-coloured ink in the sixteenth century divided the Historia into nine Books and chapters and displays antiquarian interest, e.g. underlining the names 'Nennius' (f. 19 verso) and 'Gildas' (f. 36 verso). On f. iv verso, in italic, 'Th. Paulinus G[?r]', late sixteenth century. Also on f. iv verso, a contents list in another italic hand of late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, beginning 'Primo Walterus Calenus Oxoniensis Archdiaconus de Regibus antiquum Britannorum ex Wallica lingua in Latinum redactus. floruit Anno Domini 1120'. The same hand has corrected Calenus to Monemutensis; Griscom, p. 37, notes that Calenus also occurs in association with Welsh versions of the Historia, suggesting the annotator was perhaps Welsh. There are notes on f. v verso by the hand of the contents list and by another of late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Items 2 and 3 in the contents list are heavily erased. On f. 90 verso are traces of three seals. No. 19 in Thomas Phillipps's 1837 printed catalogue and No. 17 in the Second Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1871). Bookplate of George Ralph Charles [Ormsby Gore], third baron Harlech, inside front cover. The manuscript was borrowed by Acton Griscom in 1926 (see letter loose in MS and Brogyntyn MS II.54(h)).