Matthew Paris's "Historia Minor" (Vol. iv., p. 209.).
—MR. SANSOM will find the desired MS. in the British Museum, 14 C. vii. (Macray's Manual of Brit. Hist., p. 26. Lond. 1845.)
R. G.
In the Cottonian library, Claudius D. vi. 9., will be found "Abbreviatio compendiosa Chronicorum Angliæ, ab Ao 1000, ad A. 1255. Scripsit quidam ad calcem, 'Hic desinit Mat. Paris Historia Minor, quæ est epitome Majoris, quæ ad A.D. 1258 continuatur.'"
The Bibliothecæ Regiæ, 14 C. vii., contains "Historiæ M. Paris. Continuatio ad A.D. 1273, alia manu. De possessione hujus Codicis multa fuit altercatio." (See Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. lxxxviii. edit. 1840.) There are also MSS. at Corpus Christi College (No. 56.) and Ben'et College, Cambridge (No. 31.). Macray states, that the Historia Minor was made out of the Historia Major by Paris, both from Wendover to 1235, and his own large additions after that period.
J. Y.
Hoxton.
Sanford's "Descensus" (Vol. iv., p. 232.).
—The work of Hugo Sanfordus, De Descensu Domini nostri Jesu Christi ad inferos, was published as a separate work at Amsterdam in 1611, and its title is inserted in the printed catalogue of the Bodleian Library. Can ÆGROTUS give a specific reference to the book, page, and edition of Gale's Court of the Gentiles in which it is spoken of, and also his authority for the statement that it was published in the works of a bishop who survived him?
TYRO.