Manuscripts
The text is preserved in two manuscripts:
- The Liber additamentorum, BL Cotton MS Nero D I, where it is accompanied by miniatures made both by Matthew Paris and by a fourteenth-century hand, and
- MS Add. 62777 (BL, London), a copy of the former.
Previously, Matthew Paris had written another, brief account of Offa of Mercia in his Latin copy of Vie de Saint Auban "The Life of St Alban" (verse), preserved in Trinity College Dublin, MS 177, which is also embellished with miniatures portraying selected episodes.
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