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1. Cotton MS Claudius E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E V
Title:
Notitia Provinciarum; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales; excerpts from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Pseudo-Gregory the Great, Decreta; Cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury; Ralph d'Escures, Letter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Notitia Regionum et Provinciarum (Names of Regions and Provinces), beginning: 'Incipiunt Nomina .XI. regionum continentium infra se provincias CXIII'. ff. 2v-231v: Pseudo-Isidore (Isidore Mercator), Decretales (Decretals), preceded by a preface (ff. 2v-4r), beginning: 'In ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Julius D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D III
Title:
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Tiberius C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C II
Title:
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a decorated copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735). Sometimes known as the 'Tiberius Bede', it was made in the south of England in late 8th or early 9th century. In the 9th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Tiberius E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
Title:
Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Titus A XXVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV
Title:
Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium; Priscian, De Situ Orbis; Pseudo-Dares, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Pseudo-Jerome, De Mobilitate Mentis Humanae; Prophetia Sybillae; Pseudo-Ausonius, Sententiae Septem Sapientum; (?) Segardus junior of St Omer, De Miseria Hominis; Roger of Caen, De Contemptu Mundi (excerpt); Hildebert of Lavardin, De Mysterio Missae (excerpts); De Tribus Mortibus; Pseudo-Nennius, Historia Brittonum; Pseudo-Bede, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; De Septem Miraculis ...
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript of historical, theological and prophetic texts was owned and possibly produced at the Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury (Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 36). The exemplar of this manuscript was a manuscript, extant in two pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Vespasian D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XI
Title:
Lawrence of Durham, Consolatio de Morte Amici; Hypognosticon; Oratio pro Laurentio; Oratio pro Naufragis; Oratio pro Iuvenibus Compeditis (imperfect); Oratio pro Milone (imperfect); Maledictio
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains works by Lawrence of Durham (b. c. 1110, d. 1154), poet, hagiographer, and prior of Durham Cathedral Priory. The manuscript primarily contains the Hypognosticon (‘Abbreviation’), a poem that recounts the biblical history of mankind from its creation until pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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