Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139
Contents

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139

Section Title: Contents
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folios	description

i-ii	Preliminary matter

1	1r-16v	Historia omnimoda (“Universal history”)

2	17r-25v	Extracts from Regino of Prüm's Chronicon

3	36r-46r	Richard of Hexham, De gestis regis Stephani et de bello Standardii

4	46r-48v	Chronicle from Adam to Emperor Henry V

5	48v-50r	Letter to Hugh, Dean of York, De archiepiscopis Eboraci, ascribed to Symeon of Durham.

6	50r-51v	De obsessione Dunelmi et de Probitate Ucthredi Comitis.

7	51v-129v	Historia regum.

8	129v-147r	Historia Johannis prioris Haugustaldensis Ecclesie xxv annorum, a continuation of Historia regum by John, prior of Hexham.

9	132r	Erased rubric and sketch of comet

10	132v	Serlo of Wilton's poem on the Battle of the Standard.

11	133r-v	Poem on death of Somerled, by the Glasgow clerk William

12	133v-138r	Ailred of Rievaulx, Relatio de Standardo, treatise on the Battle of the Standard.

8	138r-147r	Historia Johannis resumes.

13	147r-149v	Ailred of Rievaulx, De Sanctimoniali de Wattun

14	150r-152v	Account of St Mary's Abbey at York

15	152v	Item, e.g. on foundation of Fountains in 1132.

16	153r-158r	Letter by Thurstan, archbishop of York, to William of Corbeil, archbishop of Canterbury.

17-20	158r-161v	Extracts from William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum.

21	162r	Fragmentary saga about King Ælla of Northumbria and his relation with the wife of merchant Ærnulf.

22	165r-v	De eo quod Eboracensis Ecclesia nullum dominium super Scottos habere debet.

23	165v	Story about a clerk interrogating the spirit of Malcolm IV of Scotland (d. 1165)

166-80	Second volume: Historia Brittonum, Life of St Gildas

Sentence(s)

Historia regum runs from f. 51v to 129v.

final_sentence: Historia regum runs from f. 51v to 129v.