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31. Cotton MS Vitellius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III
Title:
(1) Old English Illustrated Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus in Old English; (2) Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi; (3) Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii; (4) notes by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf. f. 4r: early modern table of contents. ff. 5r-10v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi, copied in England in the 1st qua...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

32. Cotton MS Vitellius F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

33. Egerton MS 613

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613
Title:
Prose and Verse Miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character. ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm) The core parts of the manuscript were compl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

34. Egerton MS 613, f 1r

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, f 1r
Title:
Fragment of a Calendar
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a Calendar in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
Parchment leaf

35. Egerton MS 613, f 2v (item one)

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, f 2v (item one)
Title:
Chanson Amoreuse de Notre Seigneur
Scope & Content:
Verse in Anglo-Norman: 'En une matine me leuoye' (Chanson Amoreuse de Notre Seigneur).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
Parchment leaf

36. Egerton MS 613, f 6v (item two)

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, f 6v (item two)
Title:
Prière à Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie
Scope & Content:
Verse in Anglo-Norman: 'De une pucele/chanteray', preceded by the burden 'Tres duce katerine sez nostre mescine' (Prière à Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
Parchment leaf

37. Egerton MS 613, f 30v

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, f 30v
Title:
La Souris
Scope & Content:
Verse in Anglo-Norman: 'De la soryte ne dige mye' (La Souris).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
Parchment leaf

38. Egerton MS 613, ff 3r-6r

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, ff 3r-6r
Title:
Salut et solace par l'amour de Jésu
Scope & Content:
Verse in Anglo-Norman, with Latin quotations and Middle English phrases: 'Epître à une dame sur les souffrances du Christ, en prose' (Salut et solace par l'amour de Jésu). A tract for nuns under conventual discipline.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Four parchment leaves

39. Egerton MS 613, ff 59r-64r

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, ff 59r-64r
Title:
Les Quatre Titres d'une Nonne
Scope & Content:
Verse in Anglo-Norman: 'Dame . amie . fille . sorur' (Les Quatre Titres d'une Nonne).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Six parchment leaves

40. Egerton MS 1894

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1894
Title:
Egerton Genesis Picture Book
Scope & Content:
Cycle of 149 illustrations of Genesis, from Creation to the latter part of the history of Joseph; full-page drawings arranged in one to four compartments on each page, executed in ink, and either with colour washes or unfinished, with (ff. 1r-9v) short captions in Ango-Norman French, based on Pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 20 folios

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