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"Two Twelfth-Century Bibliophiles and Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum." The two oldest and best-known manuscripts of Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum are of Continental, Norman origin: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale MS lat. 6042 and Cambridge, University Library Gg 2.21. Fresh codicological evidence and new arguments are put forward here concerning their origin and provenance. It is suggested that lat. 6042 was made for Bec, and that Robert de Torigny, after he became abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel, borrowed the book and never returned it. It is argued that Gg 2.21 was copied at about the same time and from the same exemplar for Philippe de Harcourt, bishop of Bayeux, whose library was willed to Bec; Gg 2.21 bears a fourteenth-century Bec pressmark. The article reviews Robert's self-image as a scholar and bookman, and alludes to his intellectual rivalry with Philippe.
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