Epitomæ historiæ Rogeri Waldon
Prologue to Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum)

Edited by William M. Green, ‘Hugo of St Victor De tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum’, Speculum 18 (1943) 484–93, at 486–92: 488 line 1 to 489 line 28. The edition is based on the text in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale MS 15009, ff. 1r–40v (V), collated with Bibliothèque nationale MS 13409, ff. 1r–27r (C); Bibliothèque nationale MS 14872, ff. 49r–86v (W); Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale MS 542, ff. 1r–54r (L); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Codices latini monacenses 2, ff. 88r–111r (M); Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale MS 128, ff. 1r–46r (B); Douai, Bibliothèque municipale MS 364 (now Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, assuming the MS was among the 6000 in the cellar that survived the library’s destruction on 11 August 1944) (D), ff. 103v–33r.

Translated by Mary J. Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2008), Appendix A (pp. 339–44).












Liber de prioratu sancti Iakobi de Est [Deping]1

Notes

1 DB: Deping is illegible: it was read under ultra-violet light by Julian Harrison: ‘Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Chronicle’, p. 271.
Abridgement of the history of Roger of Walden1
Prologue to Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum)

Edited by William M. Green, ‘Hugo of St Victor De tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum’, Speculum 18 (1943) 484–93, at 486–92: 488 line 1 to 489 line 28. The edition is based on the text in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale MS 15009, ff. 1r–40v (V), collated with Bibliothèque nationale MS 13409, ff. 1r–27r (C); Bibliothèque nationale MS 14872, ff. 49r–86v (W); Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale MS 542, ff. 1r–54r (L); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Codices latini monacenses 2, ff. 88r–111r (M); Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale MS 128, ff. 1r–46r (B); Douai, Bibliothèque municipale MS 364 (now Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, assuming the MS was among the 6000 in the cellar that survived the library’s destruction on 11 August 1944) (D), ff. 103v–33r.

Translated by Mary J. Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2008), Appendix A (pp. 339–44).












 
Book of the Priory of St James of Est [Deeping]

Notes

1 JT: For an explanation of the confusion with this title, see Harrison, ‘Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Chronicle’, pp. 269–70. For Roger of Walden, archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of London (d. 1406), see https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28445.