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1. Cotton MS Fragments VIII

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Cotton MS Fragments VIII
Title:
Meditationes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains fragments from six leaves of a volume of Meditationes, written in Latin prose, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A collection of fragments from a volume of Meditationes, written in Latin prose, containing the following...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Appendix LI

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Cotton MS Appendix LI
Title:
Computus
Scope & Content:
An Irish version of John de Pulcro Rivo's Computus manualis, with additional computistical material in Latin. For a detailed description and translation of the Irish material, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 285-327. The manuscript was badly damaged in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

3. Cotton MS Fragments XIX

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Cotton MS Fragments XIX
Title:
Theological treatise
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from four leaves of an unidentified theological treatise (or treatises) in Latin prose, incorporating quotations from Biblical and exegetical works. The volume was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Fragments from an uniden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Fragments XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XVI
Title:
Chronicle of English history
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from two leaves of a Latin prose text, most likely a 14th-century chronicle of English history, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. The first four leaves of the volume contained part of a chronicle of the city of London, 1194-1316/17, at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Cotton MS Julius D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D IX
Title:
South English Legendary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Cotton MS Vespasian A I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A I/1
Title:
Leaf from a Psalter
Scope & Content:
This leaf from a Psalter was inserted into Cotton MS Vespasian A I, probably during the 17th century when they were owned by Sir Robert Cotton. It is now mounted and kept separately. Decoration: f. 1r: a full-page framed miniature in colours on a gold ground, depicting Christ in Majesty with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1220
Extent:
A parchment leaf

7. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/2

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Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/2
Title:
Burnt fragment from the Cotton collection
Scope & Content:
This fragment formerly belonged to an unidentified manuscript from the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: Fragment 1: Language: Latin; Script: Gothic Cursive; Date: 14th century (?).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 fragment

8. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/4

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Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/4
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho D VIII
Scope & Content:
These eight fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Otho D VIII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The composite manuscript is made up of six parts that were produced at separate times in England between the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
8 fragments

9. Cotton MS Fragments I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments I
Title:
Historical compilation related to Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus
Scope & Content:
These 30 leaves originally belonged to a 12th-century manuscript, containing a historical compilation closely related to the Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer. The manuscript has been shown to be contemporaneous with the autograph copy of Lambert's work (now Ghent, University Library, MS 9...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/3
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho B XI
Scope & Content:
These eight fragments most likely belonged to Cotton MS Otho B XI, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript contains copies of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
8 fragments