Gesta pontificum Anglorum

Titre:	Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; De gestis Pontificum Anglorum
Date:	Première moitié du XII^e siècle
Langue:	Latin
Genre:	Chronique
Forme:	Prose
Contenu:
Incipit:	Incipit prologus in libro Willelmi de gestis pontificum Anglorum. Prima sedes episcoporum post Christianitatem Anglorum Cantuariae habita est et habetur. Ea urbs est Angliae nec adeo magna nec exiliter parva… Liber primus. De Archiepiscopis. § 1. Cantuariae sedit primus Augustinus, Gregorii Magni discipulus, ut vulgo notum est. Pallium autem et privilegium archiepiscopatus idem Gregorius Augustino ad Lundoniam concessit…
Explicit:	… quibus nulli umquam praestantiores fuerint in offitiis utrisque. Tonitribus et fulminibus per omnes menses infestus, imbrium continuatione nullo pene intermisso die, estivis etiam mensibus pluvius etrain.

Manuscrits

Première rédaction:
1. London, British Library, Cotton, Claudius A. V, f. 45-132
2. London, British Library, Harley, 2, f. 98-171
3. London, British Library, Harley, 261, f. 108-167
4. London, British Library, Harley, 3641
5. Oxford, All Souls College Library, 34
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 357, f. 1-79
7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud C. 97 (olim 598), f. 4-46
8. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 199, f. 1-64
9. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin, 6235
Seconde rédaction:
1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, 43
2. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, R. v. 34
3. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, R. v. 36
4. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, R. v. 40
5. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, R. vii. 4
6. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, R. vii. 13
7. Cambridge, University Library, Ff. i. 25
8. Dublin, Trinity College Library, 337 (477)
9. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 179, f. 87-94
10. London, British Library, Arundel, 222
11. London, British Library, Harley, 356, f. 1-231
12. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton, 54, f. 1-83
13. Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, 272
14. Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, 300
15. Oxford, Magdalen College Library, 172 [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi. Willielmi monachi Malmesburiensis de gestis regum Anglorum lib. V. Eiusdem Historiae nouellae lib. II. Eiusdem de gestis pontificum Angl. lib. IIII. Henrici Archidiaconi Huntindoniensis Historiarum lib. VIII. Rogeri Houedeni Annalium pars prior et posterior. Chronicorum Ethelwerdi lib. IIII. Ingulphi abbatis Croylandensis historiarum lib. I. Adjecta ad finem chronologia
London, G. Bishop, R. Nuberie et R. Barker, 1596
ARLIMA: EA3962 USTC: 513276
Exemplaires en ligne: [GB] [IA]
Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi. Willielmi monachi Malmesburiensis de gestis regum Anglorum lib. V. Eiusdem Historiae nouellae lib. II. Eiusdem de gestis pontificum Angl. lib. IIII. Henrici Archidiaconi Huntindoniensis Historiarum lib. VIII. Rogeri Houedeni Annalium pars prior et posterior. Chronicorum Ethelwerdi lib. IIII. Ingulphi abbatis Croylandensis historiarum lib. I. Adjecta ad finem chronologia. Cum indice rerum ac verborum memorabilium locupletissimo.
Frankfurt am Main, Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium et heredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1601
ARLIMA: EA3963 USTC: 2134610
Exemplaires en ligne: [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3, ex. 4]
Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae, scriptores XV. ex vetustis codd. mss. editi opera Thomae Gale Th. Pr. Praefatio ostendit ordinem. Accessit rerum et verborum index locupletissimus
Oxoniae, e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1691
ARLIMA: EA3816
Exemplaires en ligne: [GB] [IA]

Éditions modernes

Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi De gestis pontificum Anglorum libri quinque. Edited from the autograph manuscript by N. E. S. A. Hamilton, London, Longman; London, Trübner; Oxford, Parker; Cambridge, MacMillan (Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland, 52), 1870, xxvi + 629 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- [New York], Kraus Reprint, 1964
William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum Anglorum = The History of the English Bishops, edited and translated by M. Winterbottom, with the assistance of R. M. Thomson, Oxford, Clarendon Press (Oxford Medieval Texts), 2007, 2 t., xxxi + 693 p., liii + 416 p. ISBN: 9780198207702
Réimpression:
- 2009

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- William of Malmesbury, The Deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta Pontificum Anglorum), translated by David Preest, Woodbridge et Rochester, Boydell Press, 2002, xv + 320 p.
- Winterbottom et Thomson (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Œuvre de William of Malmesbury

Bibliographie