Texts
Historia Brittonum‘The history of the Britons’
- Cambro-Latin
- prose
- Cambro-Latin texts
Ascribed to
NenniusNennius (fl. 9th century) – Welsh monk and student of Elvodugus (Elfoddw); best known from the prologue added to the Historia Brittonum, in which he is credited as the author of that work.
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Manuscripts
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- Harleian recension
- London, British Library, MS Harleian 3859 [s. xiex/xiiin] ff. 174v–190r, 195r–198rOn ff. 190r-195r, the Annales Cambriae (A-text) and the so-called Harleian genealogies are interpolated.
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian D xxi
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian B xxv
- Chartres recension
- Vatican recension
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 1164
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11108
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 8048
- London, British Library, MS Additional 11702
- Nennian recension
includes
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139 [s. xii]
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A viii
- Gildasian recension
- Other
Language
- Cambro-Latin
Date
9th century (original date of composition)
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
- Related:
- Lebor Bretnach
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] [tr.] Morris, John [ed. and tr.], Nennius. British history and the Welsh annals, History from the Sources: Arthurian Period Sources 8, London: Phillimore, 1980.
[ed.] Dumville, David N. [ed.], The Historia Brittonum, vol. 3: The ‘Vatican’ recension, Cambridge: Brewer, 1985.
Dumville, David N., The Historia Brittonum, vol. 2: The ‘Chartres’ recension, Cambridge: Brewer, 1988.
Secondary sources (select)
Dumville, David N., “The historical value of the Historia Brittonum”, Arthurian Literature 6 (1986): 1–26.
Dumville, David N., “On the north British section of the Historia Brittonum”, Welsh History Review 8:3 (June 1977, 1976–1977): 345–354.
Dumville, David N., “II: On the north British section of the Historia Brittonum” [1977], in: Dumville, David N., Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990. 345–354.
Reprint
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick in the Historia Brittonum: three texts”, in: Dumville, David N., and Lesley Abrams (eds.), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, Studies in Celtic History 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 221–232.
Dumville, David N., “Historia Brittonum: an insular history from the Carolingian age”, in: Scharer, Anton, and Georg Scheibelreiter (eds.), Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 32, Vienna: Oldenbourg, 1994. 406–434.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
