Author: Giraldus Cambrensis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-26

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9781334065002

Excerpt from Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, Vol. 8: De Principis Instructione Liber Like several others that have preceded it, the treatise above named has unfortunately survived in a single copy only, though it has not in addition suffered from the ravages of fire, like the Speculum Ecclesice, or from the loss of many of its chapters, like the Liter de Gestis. The volume in which it is preserved is Cotton ms. Julius B. Xiii. In the British Museum. This is a small vellum folio of 173 leaves, the last 126 of which (ff. 48 - 173) contain the work in question. The earlier quires 2 - 40) are occupied by a series of chronological tables, which, after a few introductory paragraphs, give the succession of patriarchs, kings, emperors, etc., from the Creation downwards. Among them (ff. 19, 28) are two lists of pepes, both of which end with Honorius II. (1124 the second list being further continued in a later hand to the eleventh year of Innocent III., 1208. As, moreover, Lothair II. (1125 - 1137) figures as the reigning emperor, and Louis VI. (1108-1137) and Henry I. As kings of France and England respectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.