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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Cotton MS Language Anglo-Norman Place Canterbury, England

1. Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 91–111

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 91–111
Title:
Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 91r-91v: Computistical tables, the second one for the years 1133-1177. ff. 92r-97v: Calendar, adapted for the use of Canterbury. ff. 98r-108v: Computistical treatises. f. 109r: Genealogy of kings in Anglo-Norman, beginning ‘Hic est Istoria Francorum’ (Anglo-Norman). ff. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

2. Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186
Title:
Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1331)). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 182v: verses on the death of Edward VI, king of England (r. 1553-1558) in a late 16th-century hand, followed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

3. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85
Title:
Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III