7/15 It will therefore suffice to give a very brief account of each. _Cursor Mundi_, or _Cursor o Werld_, i.e.Over-runner of the World; so called because it rehearses a great part of the world's history, from the creation onwards. It is a poem of portentous length, extending to 29,655 lines, and recounts many of the events found in the Old and New Testaments, with the addition of legends from many other sources, one of them, for example, being the _Historia Scholastica_ of Peter Comestor. Dr Murray thinks it may have been written in the neighbourhood of Durham. |