The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex compiled, probably, by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick. The manuscript contains numerous works, such as a map of the world (with index), and works by Orosius, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales. It is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms Latin 4126). (13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400. ... first page of the Codex Argenteus A codex (Latin for book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. ... Poppleton Township is a township located in Kittson County, Minnesota. ... Origin and early history Carmelites (in Latin Ordo fratrum Beatæ Virginis Mariæ de monte Carmelo) is the name of a Roman Catholic order founded in the 12th century by a certain Berthold (d. ... Hulne Priory is a monastery that was founded in the 13th century by the Carmelites, or White Friars who were one of the Orders of Mendicants, bound by their rule to live in extreme poverty. ... The town of Alnwick, nestling behind Alnwick Castle For the parish in New Brunswick, see Alnwick, New Brunswick Alnwick (pronounced ) is a small market town in north Northumberland, in the north-east of England. ... A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth. ... Paulus Orosius (c. ... Geoffrey of Monmouth was a clergyman and one of the major figures in the development of British history. ... Giraldus Cambrensis (c. ... The new buildings of the library. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

However, the manuscript is famous because it contains seven consecutive documents concerning medieval Scotland, many of which are unique to the manuscript and regarded as vital sources. The first six at least had probably been compiled previously in Scotland in the early thirteenth century: Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...

1. de Situ Albanie; which appears to be an introduction to the following five or six texts. The Poppleton MS preserves the only copy of this.
2. Cronica de origine antiquorum Pictorum (i.e. Chronicle on the Origins of the Ancient Picts); part of the Pictish Chronicle, this largely a pastiche of wider Latin learning regarding the Picts and Scots. Contains extractions from the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville and Nennius' Historia Brittonum.
3. A Pictish King List; part of the Pictish Chroncle, this is a largely un-Gaelicized list of Pictish Kings, containing an opening mythological section not present in many other Pictish king lists. Unlike related Pictish king-lists, it gets cut off at the accession of Cináed I mac Ailpín. It reveals its origins at Abernethy by preserving a spurious foundation "charter" to the monastery there, reputedly granted by King Nechtan (fl. early seventh century), whom it calls Nectonius magnus filius Uuirp.
4. Chronicle of the Kings of Alba; short written chronicle of the Kings of Alba, from covering the period from the time of King Cináed I mac Ailpín (d. 858) until the reign of King Cináed III mac Maíl Coluim (r. d. 995). Like the de Situ Albanie, the Poppleton MS preserves the only copy.
5. A List of Dál Riatan and Scottish monarchs; this joined couple of king lists starts from the legendary Fergus Mór mac Eirc and ends with William I.
6. A Genealogy of William I; this genealogy goes all the way to Adam, via Gaidhel Glas. The genealogy is just a recording or partial translation of a Gaelic genealogy, where mac and meic have been replaced with filius and filii. Virtually all ancestors before David I have their names in the Middle Irish genitive form.
7. A foundation legend of St Andrews; it may not have been compiled by the author of de Situ Albanie in the thirteenth century, simply because it does not fit in with the logic presented by documents one to six, and is nothing of the legend or topic is mentioned in de Situ Albanie.

The value of the manuscript has been shown in the publications of William Forbes Skene, Alan Orr Anderson, and his wife Marjory Anderson. Dozens of articles have been written in the last half century about various aspects of the Scottish content, although studies of the whole manuscript have been rarer. De Situ Albanie (dSA) is the name given to the first of seven Scottish documents found in the so-called Poppleton Manuscript, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. ... The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by (especially older) historians to an pseudo-historical account of the kings of the Picts beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes in central and northern Scotland from the 3rd century to the 11th century. ... Scotti was the generic name(a latinized version of the gaelic Sgaothaich) given by the Romans to Gaelic raiders from Ireland. ... It has been suggested that Isidro be merged into this article or section. ... Nennius, or Nemnivus, is the name of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. ... The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle which survives in a late copy and did not record the dates the kings reigned. ... Kenneth MacAlpin (c. ... Abernethy is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, situated eight miles south east of Perth. ... Nechtan nepos (grandson or nephew) of Irb or Uerb, was king of the Picts from 597 to c. ... ( 6th century - 7th century - 8th century - other centuries) Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Arabs subjugate Syria, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, North Africa and Central Asia to Islam. ... The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, or Scottish Chronicle, is a short written chronicle of the Kings of Alba, covering the period from the time of King Cináed I mac Ailpín (d. ... The Kingdom of Scotland (Alba) was first unified as a state by Kenneth I of Scotland ( Cináed mac Ailpín in old Gaelic or Coinneach mac Alpin in modern Gaelic ) in 843. ... Alba is the ancient and modern Gaelic name (IPA: ) for the country of Scotland (also Alba in Irish, and in Old Gaelic Albu). ... Kenneth MacAlpin (c. ... Events Patriarch Ignatius is imprisoned and (December 25) deposed to be succeeded by patriarch Photius I. Louis the German invades West Francia, hoping to secure Aquitaine from his brother Charles the Bald, but fails. ... Kenneth III (Cináed mac Duib) was King of Scotland from 997 to 1005. ... Events (Erik Segersäll) is succeeded by (Olof Skötkonung), the first baptized ruler of Sweden. ... Dalriada or Dál Riata was the kingdom of the Scotti, who spread from the Kingdom of Oriel to Argyll and eventually gave their name to Scotland. ... The Kingdom of Scotland (Alba) was first unified as a state by Kenneth I of Scotland ( Cináed mac Ailpín in old Gaelic or Coinneach mac Alpin in modern Gaelic ) in 843. ... Fergus I (Scottish Gaelic: Fergus Mor Mac Earca) was king of Scottish Dál Riada from about 500 until 501. ... William I (William the Lion, William Leo, William Dunkeld or William Canmore), (1142/1143 - December 4, 1214) reigned as King of Scotland from 1165 to 1214. ... Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. ... King David I (or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim; also known as Saint David I or David I the Saint) (1084 – May 24, 1153), was King of Scotland from 1124 until his death, and the youngest son of Malcolm Canmore and of Saint Margaret (sister of Edgar Ætheling). ... Middle Irish is the name given by historical philologists to the form of the Irish language from the 10th to 16th centuries; it is therefore a contemporary of Middle English. ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... Named after Saint Andrew the Apostle, the Royal Burgh of St Andrews is a town on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, and the home of golf. ... William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scotts friend, James Skene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on June 7 1809. ...

Bibliography

• Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286, Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1923)
• Anderson, Marjorie O., Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1973), pp. 235-60
• Broun, Dauvit, "The Seven Kingdoms in De Situ Albanie: A Record of Pictish political geography or imaginary Map of ancient Alba?" in E.J. Cowan & R. Andrew McDonald (eds.), Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era, (Edinburgh, 2000, rev. 2005), pp. 24-42
• Skene, William F., Chronicles of the Picts and Scots: And Other Memorials of Scottish History, (Edinburgh, 1867)

William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scotts friend, James Skene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on June 7 1809. ...

External links

• Another summary of the Scottish contents