Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his workStukeley, William
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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his work
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
The other part is called _Anglo-Saxonum Chronicon_, L. V. is a
continuation of the former part, _Prudentiæ Veterum mos inolevit_—it
was John Stow’s, says a manuscript note of Joscelin, in a manuscript in
the Cotton library, _Nero_ C. iii. A manuscript of both parts is found
in the public library, Cambridge, among the manuscripts, fol. contains
pages 516, and four books; ends in 1066. (248.) in the catalogue of
manuscripts mentioned p. 168, Nᵒ 2304. (124.) It begins,
_Brittannia insularum optima_, &c. in the end (says Dr. James,
librarian in A.D. 1600.) are these words,
_Reges vero Saxonum Gulielmo Malmsburiensi et Henrico Huntendoniensi
permitto: quos de regibus Britonum tacere jubeo_, &c.
Vossius says, there is in Bennet-College library, Cambridge, a
manuscript _epitome Chronicorum_, which acknowledges our Richard for
its author, in the title.
There is in the Arundel library of the Royal Society, among the
manuscripts, p. 137, mentioned this. _Britonum, Anglorum et Saxonum
historia_, to the reign of Hen. III. said to be of this author.
Dr. Stanley, in his catalogue of the manuscripts in Bennet-College
library aforesaid, p. 22. G. VIII. mentions this. _Ricardi Cicestrii
Speculum historiale, vel Anglo-Saxonum Chronicon, ab anno 449. ad_ H.
III.
In the printed catalogue of manuscripts, p. 134. Nᵒ 1343. (66.)
_Epitome Chronicorum Angliæ_, L. 1, 2. _Epitome Chronicorum Ric. Cic.
Monachi Westmonasterii_.
There is a work of our Richard’s in the Lambeth library, among the
Wharton manuscripts, L. p. 59. and the late Dr. Richard Rawlinson
bought a manuscript of his, at Sir Joseph Jekyl’s sale; which is now at
Oxford.
Our author was not eminent solely in this kind of learning; but we find
likewise the traces of other works of his, in his clerical character.
Thus, in a volume of St. Jerom’s _ad Eugenium_, 19. 9. a manuscript in
Bennet-College library, is mention of _Tractatus mag. magistri Ricardi
Cirencestre, super symbolum majus et minus_.
There is likewise, in the library of Peterburgh, T. IV. a work of his,
_de Officiis Ecclesiasticis_, L. VII. begins _Officium ut_—This is
mentioned by William Wydeford, and attributed to our Richard, in his
determination against the trialogue of Wicliff, artic. 1. fol. 96.
likewise by Richard Wych, who says he flourished A. D. 1348.
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