https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.7.10/manifest.jsonThe MS. is described under the symbol of At. by Bp. Stubbs in the Rolls edition, I. p. lxviii.
1. f.2 Inc. liber primus Willelmi de gestis regum anglorum
Res Anglorum gestas.
On ff.42b, 43b are grotesque heads well drawn in pencil.
At the end of Lib. II. is a blank page (f.83b).
There are xvth cent. marginal notes scattered throughout this book.
Lib. V. ends on f.150a. In the course of this book the hand becomes closer and finer and so continues to the end.
2. f.150 Inc. prologus Willelmi (mo)nachi in nouella hystoria anglorum ad Robertum comitem gloecestr
Domino amantissimo Roberto filio regis henrici.
Liber II. ends f.162a
ab his qui interfuere ueritatem accepero.
On the verso (xiii)
Non tonsura facit monachum nec horrida uestis
Sed uirtus animi perpetuusque uigor.
Mens humilis . mundi contemptus . uita pudica .
Sanctaque sobrietas . hec faciunt monachum.
Quod uitare nequis constanti suscipe mente
Sic que dura fuit mors tibi mitis erit.
The fly-leaf is a bit of a xv, xvith cent. account roll.
procuratori hospitalis S. Thome...? ad orandum pro anima dicti defuncti.
Ric. Goddard de snape in elemosina... pro anima dicti defuncti.
ffratribus de Marlborough ad celebrand. pro anima dicti defuncti.
Executores Thome Goddard
...infra manerium de Okborne et Bytton.
ad perficiend. quandam ca(ntariam) in ecclesia ad Okborne pro stipendio unius capellani ibid. ex consid...
Thome haydok et Christiane uxori eius.
The places named, Ogbourne, Bytton, Marlborough, are all together in Wiltshire.
[Note by N. R. Ker, May 1944: The flyleaf must I think be merely a Parkerian insertion and should not be supposed to give any help as to the medieval provenance. There are bits like it in other books at CCC and Trinity, e.g. in B.15.34.]
