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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII
Title:: Cotton Manuscript Vitellius C XII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is now bound in two volumes, Cotton Vitellius C XII/1 and Cotton Vitellius C XII/2 (previously Cotton MS Vitellius C XII part 1 and Cotton MS Vitellius C XII part 2). Cotton Vitellius C XII/1 includes: ff 1-113: the Historia tripartita, copied in the early 14th century; ff 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: End of 11th century to 14th century
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 236-291
Title:: Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: These folios include three saints' lives, copied in the 14th century: ff. 236r-254v: Aelred of Rievaulx's vita of St Edward the Confessor (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2423); ff. 254v-280r: A vita of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury by Edward Grim (Bibliotheca Hagiographica La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 229-235
Title:: De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee
Scope & Content:: These folios contain some material related to royal coronations that was copied in the 14th century, including: ff. 229r-230v: De indulgencia apud assisium; ff. 231r-v: Coronatio Edwardi secundi; ff. 232r-235v: La maniere comment le roy sera coronee.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

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