Collection items

Continental copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

The History of the Kings of Britain presents a legendary account of the history of Britain composed by the 12th-century...

English copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of ...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s (b. c. 1100, d. 1154) History of the Kings of Britain was an influential medieval account of the ...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of King Lear in His...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1175–1200

Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100–1154) was a scholar and probably also a monk, educated in Monmouth and living in Oxford. H...

Illustrated copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th century

The History of the Kings of Britain by the Anglo-Norman cleric, Geoffrey of Monmouth (b. c. 1100, d. 1154) was an enormo...