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An Examination of the Fifth ‘Nicholas Poem’ in Cotton Tiberius B v(i) and Its Source

ABSTRACT In 1087, Barian merchants sailing west from Antioch stopped in Myra to take possession of St Nicholas’s relics, which they reinterred at their home port. Nicephorus, a monk at Bari, wrote the first account of this event shortly after it occurred. John, an archdeacon of Bari who served under Robert Guiscard, wrote a similar version within a year. This article argues that by 1100, a metrical adaptation of Nicephorus’s work was added, alongside four other poems about St Nicholas, to the back flyleaves of Cotton Tiberius Bv(i). A critical edition and translation of the poem are included in the appendix.