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Additional Sources Mentioned in Passing in Holinshed's Chronicles CATALOGUE OF ADDITIONAL SOURCES MENTIONED IN PASSING IN HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES COMPILED BY HENRY SUMMERSON Holinshed’s Chronicles contain many references to sources which do not occur in the list of authors that forms part of the preliminaries. What follows is as complete a list as I have been able to make of those other writers who are named in the text and its margins as having been drawn upon in the compilation of the Chronicles, together with identifications of them and, where these are named or easily found, of their works. Personal names are presented as they occur in the text, in alphabetical sequence and in indirect order, precedence being given to surnames or toponymics. Thus Peter of Ickham occurs under `I’, not under `P’. It is hardly necessary to add that in so enormous a text there are certain to be names and writings which I have overlooked or misidentified – any assistance in detecting error or filling gaps will be gratefully received. Please send comments to the project team via [email protected] 18 September 2008 Henry Summerson A Nicholas Adams, 1/196 – Nicholas Adams (described as a lawyer, presumably the man of that name recorded as attending the Middle Temple 1525x1551), An epitome of the title...to the Sovereigntie of Scotlande (1548). Aelianus, 1/57 – Aelian (c. 165-c. 235 AD), probably De historia animalium, 1562>. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, 1/331 (`ad aulicum quendam’) – Henricus Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535), scientist and occultist. Albert the great, 1/396 – Albertus Magnus (d. 1280), theologian and schoolman. Dionysius Alexandrinus, De situ orbis, 1/371 – Dionysius Periegetes, geographer (fl. ? 2nd century AD), De situ orbis 1477>, English translation 1572. Alexander de Alexandro, 1/193 – Alessandro Alessandri (d. 1523), jurist and humanist, author of Dies geniales, 1522>. Cornelius of Amsterdam, 1/396 – most likely Cornelius Gemma Frisius (1535-1578), scientist; Cornelius Crocus (c. 1500-1549), humanist, is also a possibility. Antoninus, 1/319, 322 – probably the Itinerarium provinciarum, commissioned by the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caracalla (188-217), 1518>. ODNB entry, under Lucius Septimius Severus. 1 Appianus, 1/23 – Appian (fl. 2nd century AD), historian of the Roman empire, 1472>, English translation 1578. Thomas Aquinas, 6/19 – Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), theologian, probably Summa theologiae, first printed complete at Basel, 1485. `a booke penned by Henry Archer, one of the gard to...the earle of Leicester’ [describing the earl’s expedition to the Low Countries, 1586]: recorded as attending Leicester’s funeral in 1588, otherwise unidentified. Archilochus, In epithet. temp., 1/429 – Epitetum Archiloci de temporibus, 1510, a suppositious work published with writings by the equally spurious Berosus and others. Wilden Arguis, 1/8: unidentified. `The gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled `Orlando furioso...’, 1/540 – Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), poet, Orlando Furioso, first published complete in 1532. Aristotle de magia, 1/34 – Aristotle (384-322 BC), philosopher and scientist. This is presumably a spurious work, as is `his’ De mundo, 1/9. This is obviously not the case with the `politicks’, 1/50 – Politica, ?1469>. The text on vipers, 1/383, may be part of the Historia animalium. Arrhianus, 1/20 – Arrian (c. 86-160 AD), historian, De rebus gestis Alexandri Regis, 1508>. Athanasius `his second apologie’ and letter to the emperor Jovian, 1/534 – Athanasius (d. 373), bishop of Alexandria, probably cited from his Opera, e.g. Basel, 4 vols., 1556. Atheneus, 1/22 – Athenaeus of Naucratis (fl. c. 200 AD), antiquary, Deipnosophistarum, 1524>. Auratus, 4/93 –most likely Jean Dorat (1508-1588), poet and scholar. Auson. in epig., 2/347 – Ausonius (c. 310-c. 394), poet, Epigrammata, 1472>. Sebastian Austarius, 3/756 – Sebastian Austrius (d. 1550), physician, De infantium sive puerorum morborum...curatione, Basel, 1540, 1549. Augustine, Ad Faustum, 1/16 – Augustine of Hippo (354-430), theologian, Contra Faustum Manichaeum. De civit., 1/8, 57, 6/102 – De civitate Dei. Sermon, `Invidia est odium alienae foelicitatis...’, 4/801. `Vide August. in eundem Psal. (5)’, Enarrationes in Psalmos, ?1475>. 2 Avesburie, 2/615, 618, 640, 646, 651, 661 – Robert Avesbury (d. 1359), chronicler of the reign of Edward III. ODNB entry. Avicenna, 6/19 – Avicenna [Ibn Sina] (c. 980-1037), physician and philosopher. John Aylmer – sermon preached at Paul’s Cross, 18 October 1584, 3/795 – John Aylmer (1520/1-1594), bishop of London. The sermon does not appear to have been printed. ODNB entry. Azo in summa, 5/686 – Porcius Azo (d. c. 1230), civil lawyer, Summa super Codice et Institutis, 1482>. B W.B., 4/344 [on the sickness at the Oxford assizes 1577] – unidentified. Roger Bakon, 1/46 – Roger Bacon (c. 1214-1292?), Dominican friar, scientist and supposed magician. ODNB entry. Hermol. Barb., 6/2 – Hermolaus Barbarus [Ermolao Barbaro] (1454-1493 or 1495), humanist, Castigationes Plinianae, Rome, 1492-3>. Barland, 3/189 - Hadrianus Cornelius Barlandus (1488-1542), author of several books on the history of the Low Countries. Peter Basset, 3/134, 273 – Peter Basset (fl. 1415-1437), author of chronicle of Anglo- French war surviving in College of Arms, MS 9. ODNB entry. Bassimerus of France, epistle to `the historie of Florida’ – Martin Basanier (fl. second half of 16th century), mathematician and publisher, edited René de la Laudonnière, L’histoire notable de la Floride, 1586. Robert Baston, 5/349 – Robert Baston (d. in or before 1348), poet and Carmelite friar, author of poem on the battle of Bannockburn. Lines cited by Holinshed also quoted by John Mair, Historia maioris Britanniae.... ODNB entry. Belforest, 1/3, 9 – François de Belleforest (c. 1490-c. 1564), scholar, probably L’Histoire universelle du monde, 1570. Bellogius de aquatilibus, 1/396 – Petrus Bellonius (1517-1564), naturalist, De aquatilibus, Paris, 1553. Barnard in ser. quadrages., 4/601, Bernardus in vita Malachiae, 6/58, 87 – Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), theologian, numerous editions of his sermons, seemingly no separate edition of the life of St Malachy (d. 1148), presumably available among Bernard’s Opera, 1520, 1527, 1552. 3 Lib cui tit. Regret funebre contenant le discours de la mort de Monseigneur fils de France by James Berson Parisien 1582, 4/499 – Jacques Berson, Regret funèbre contenant les actions et derniers propos de Monseigneur, fils de France..., 1584. John Bever, 3/1041 – John Bever (d. 1311?), historical writer, author of text found in BL, MS Harley 641. Also recorded as John Castor, John of London. ODNB entry. Bias the philosopher, 5/677 – Bias of Priene (fl. early 6th century BC), sage, probably as cited by Diogenes Laertius (see below). Stephen Birchington, 1/242, 4/675 – Stephen Birchington (d. 1407), monk and historical writer, mistakenly believed to have compiled Lambeth Palace Library MS 99. ODNB entry. Bizari, 4/263 – Pietro Bizzarri (1525-c. 1586), historian and spy. Perhaps Cyprium bellum, 1573. ODNB entry. Hugo le Blanc, 1/53, 173, 243 – Hugh Candidus (c. 1095-c. 1160), monk and historian of Peterborough Abbey, writings preserved only in his house’s cartularies. ODNB entry. Epistola 44 Petri Blessensis, 1/227 – Peter of Blois (1125x30-1212), ecclesiastic and letter-writer. Seemingly either Epistole, Brussels, 1480?, or Insignia opera (including letters), Paris, 1519. ODNB entry. John Boccace, 1/17, Boccatius, 1/355 – Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author and poet. Joannes Boemus, De omnium gentium moribus, 1/266 – Joannes Boemus (c. 1485-1535), cosmographer, Omnium gentium mores, 1520>. Books 1 and 2 translated as The Fardle of facions, 1555. Letters of Boniface, 1/640 – Boniface (672x5?-754), Anglo-Saxon missionary on the continent. No complete edition of his letters until 1605, seemingly known through the work of the Magdeburg Centuriators (1559-74). Andrew Boord, 1/289, 345 – Andrew Boorde (c. 1490-1549), physician and author. ODNB entry. John Boswell, The concords of Armorie, 4/319 – John Bossewell (d. 1580), Workes of Armorie, 1572. ODNB entry. Bracton, 1/264 – legal text, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, attributed to Henry of Bratton (d. 1268). Printed 1569. ODNB entry (under Bratton). Bratius De venatione, 1/386 – probably Faliscus Gratius, De venatione, 1534. 4 Bruschius, 1/45 – Caspar Bruschius (1518-1557), geographer. George Buchanan, 2/143, 639, 3/308, 381, 567, 684, 4/589, 5/324 (and repeatedly thereafter) – George Buchanan (1506-1582), historian and poet, De Maria Scotorum regina, 1571 (translated 1572), Rerum Scoticarum historia, 1582, Paraphrasis Psalmorum, 1566>. ODNB entry. Budeus, De asse, 1/283, 6/8 – Guillaume Budé (1467-1540), humanist, De asse et partibus, 1514>. Eth. Bur., 1/461 – unidentified. Ex epistula Ric.Dunelm., 4/714 – Richard Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham, presumably his `Liber epistolaris’, available only in manuscript. ODNB entry. Johannes Buteo that excellent geometrician, 1/16 – Joannes Buteo (1492-1572). C Julius Caesar a citizen of Rome...his booke intituled “Cullombeados”, 6/107 – Giulio Cesare Stella (fl. late sixteenth century), poet, Columbeidos, London, 1585. Caietanus in his commonwealth, 1/327 – most likely Tommaso de Vio Gaetani, Cardinal Cajetan (1468-1534), theologian; another possibility is Gaetanus de Thienis (1387- 1465?), schoolman. D. Caius, 1/54 – probably John Caius, see list 1 no. 112. Calameus in his commentaries de Biturigibus, 1/19 – Jean Chaumeau, Regionis biturigum exactissima descriptio, 1570. William Camden (treatise to be published shortly), 1/263, on the antiquities of Britain, 4/810, `his Britannia under the title of Kent pag. 168’, 4/820, Campdenus in Scotia, 5/672 – William Camden, Britannia (1586). ODNB entry. Ioachimus Camerarius De Ostentis, 1/49, 4/533 [verses] – Joachim Camerarius (Kammermeister), humanist, De ostentis libri duo, 1532>. Ioann. Camertes, 6/2, 37, 62 – Joannes Camers (1447-1546), humanist, for his edition of Solinus see list 1 no. 100. Martianus Capella, 1/5, 68 – Martianus Capella (fl. early 5th century AD), De nuptiis philologiae et mercurii et de septem artibus liberalibus, 1499>.
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