In the Cottonian library, Claudius D. vi. 9., will be found "Abbreviatio
compendiosa Chronicorum Angliæ, ab A'o 1000, ad A. 1255. Scripsit quidam
ad calcem, 'Hic desinit Mat. Paris Historia Minor, quæ est epitome
Majoris, quæ ad A.D. 1258 continuatur.'"
_The Bibliothecæ Regiæ_, 14 C. vii., contains "Historiæ M. Paris.
Continuatio ad A.D. 1273, alia manu. De possessione hujus Codicis multa
fuit altercatio." (See Warton's _History of English Poetry_, vol. i. p.
lxxxviii. edit. 1840.) There are also MSS. at Corpus Christi College
(No. 56.) and Ben'et College, Cambridge (No. 31.). Macray states, that
the _Historia Minor_ was made out of the _Historia Major_ by Paris, both
from Wendover to 1235, and his own large additions after that period.