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1. Cotton MS Titus D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV
Title:
Compilation of verse; extracts from Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum; De Romanis imperatoribus; a series of epitaphs; De coloribus et mixtionibus; computistical texts; formulas for the visitation of the sick; Gloria in excelsis; commentary on Juvenal, Satires.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript consists of a main part, and two fragmentary sections (one at the beginning and one at end) that were probably added as flyleaves at some point after the second half of the 14th century. The main part (ff. 5-156) is a diverse compilation written roughly in the last quarter of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156
Title:
Poetic compilation and miscellany: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia ecclesiastica; De Romanis imperatoribus; Sortes duodecim Patriarcharum; Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum, Vita Sancti Laurentii; Lawrence of Durham, Hypognosticon; Versus Damasi ad amicum suum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus de mysterio missae, Vita beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae, and De excidio Troiae; epitaphs for Augustine of Hippo (d. 430), Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), and others; hymns; computistical texts; De coloribus et mixt...
Scope & Content:
ff. 6r-13r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, excerpt from the year 1066 (Bk VI, chapter 30), beginning: ‘Anno millesimo sexageno quoque seno’. ff. 13r-15v: De Romanis imperatoribus (About the Roman Emperors), beginning: ‘Augustus Iulio Cesari succedens’. ff. 16r-19v: The anonymous Sor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Titus D XXIV.

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