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The Gesta regum Britanniae, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, beginning at chapter 2 (or 3) of bk. 1 ('Heneas post Troianum bellum'), written chiefly in the 13th cent. in England

No title in the MS. At fol. 66v is a prophecy in eleven Latin hexameters beg. 'Gallorum leuitas': supposed to be found at Rome. Fols. 67 - 70v contain brief annals of England from b. c. 1220 (Brutus) to A.D. 1245, in French beg. 'Qui voet oir & voet sauer de Rey en Rey ... Deuant la Natiuite Notre Seigneur': (written early in the 14th cent.): and on fol. 7ov is a list of the archbishops of Canterbury to about 1315, in Latin.
Collection: Douce Manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Douce 115
Extents: 73 Leaves
Dates: written chiefly in the 13th cent. in England