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21. Cotton MS Domitian A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A II
Title:
John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli; an untitled Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut; a summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle titled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’. f. 7v: computistical tables. ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle', beginning: 'Quoniam de situ et institutione lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

22. Cotton MS Faustina B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina B III
Title:
List of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775); Regularis Concordia; Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth; Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite manuscript. It includes: ff. 1r-57v: documents pertaining to Peterborough Abbey, compiled in the early 15th century; ff. 158r–v: a list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); ff. 159r–198r: the Regularis Concordia; ff. 199r–26...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
mid-11th century-1st half 15th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

23. Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV
Title:
Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris; a collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-186v) was produced at Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury in the 1st half of the 14th century. It contains the Register of Henry of Eastry, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (b. 1285, d. 1331). The second part (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1175-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex

24. Cotton MS Julius A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VII
Title:
Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum; verse miscellanies; Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba, etc
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 9 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) ff. 3–54: Cronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum, to Pope Urban IV (1261–64) (ff. 3r–14r); Bonizo of Sutri, Cronica Romanorum pontificum (ff. 15r–30r); Cronica regum Mannie et insularum, AD 1000–...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter 13th century-2nd half 15th century
Extent:

i + 134 folios

25. Cotton MS Nero A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A V
Title:
Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Bestiarius; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is composed of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-82v), dating to the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains two Anglo-Norman works by Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman poet. The first work is his Comput (Computus)−the oldest extant scientific tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-Mid 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

26. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
Title:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis; a chronicle of English history between 1042-1346 (imperfect).
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 texts: ff. 1r-35v: the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the late tenth century with additions about the True Cross and a list of archbishops of Canterbury from the late 11th or early 12th century; ff. 36r-120v: an imperfect cartulary of Ely Cathedral, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

27. Cotton MS Tiberius C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C VI
Title:
Psalter with a prefatory pictorial cycle, computistic tables, prayers, confession, a homily in Old English and collects ('The Tiberius Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-6r: Lunar and paschal tables; details and the equivalent tables in the Leofric Missal (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 579, as described in Warren, Leofric Missal (1883)), are as follows: f. 2r: Table for calculating the age of the moon in a lunation of 29 days (Leofric f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

28. Cotton MS Titus A IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A IV
Title:
Bilingual Rule of St Benedict and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-117v are dated to the mid-11th century: ff. 2r–107r: St Benedict of Nursia (b.c. 480, d. 543 or 547), Regula sancti Benedicti or The Rule of St Benedict, in a bilingual version, with the Old English translation, attributed to St Æthelwold ((b. 904/9, d. 984), Bishop of Winches...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-11th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 123 folios

29. Cotton MS Vespasian B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X
Title:
Benedeit, 'Voyage of St Brendan'; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De quindecim signis diei judicii; Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo; Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister).
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three main parts (ff. 1-24; ff. 24-30; ff. 31-124), joined in the early modern period in the library of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). Among the manuscript's contents is the Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister), an 8th-century work that describ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

30. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
Title:
Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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