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1. Cotton MS Caligula A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A IX
Title:
Layamon’s Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, religious and historical texts in Middle-English and Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-194v: Layamon’s Brut (Boffey, no. 295), the most complete surviving copy of this work, composed in alliterative verse by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire, at the beginning of the 13th century. A second copy, much abbreviated, is found in Cotton MS Otho C XII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Claudius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A XII
Title:
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), beginning: 'Totius namque molis orbe descripto'. ff. 78v-83r: Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123), De Lapidibus (About Stones), beginning: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni’. ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius B I
Title:
The Life and Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant full-text translations of the Revelations of the mystic and saint Birgitta of Sweden (b. 1303, d. 1373), known as the Liber celestis revelationum (Heavenly Book of Revelations). Another full copy of the text now survives as Cotton MS Julius F II. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Claudius C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius C IX
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum; Notarial copy of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), issued at Hereford Cathedral; Charters of Kings Edward I (r. 1272–1307) and Henry III (r. 1216–72) of England for the Abingdon Abbey; Award of Norham, addressed to the abbot and convent of Battle; Liber terrarum of Abingdon Abbey and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately in England during the 12th and 13th centuries. The first part (ff. 4-17), written in the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains the Chronicle of the theologian Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). The second p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Claudius E III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E III
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle; Henry Knighton, Chronicon; William Rishanger, Opus Chronicorum; Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici Quinti; Robert Grosseteste, Epistola
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made out of four parts. The first part contains the Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Abbreviations of Chronicles) and the Ymagines Historiarum (Images of Histories) by Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1130, d. 1202), as well as the Winchester Chronicle. The second part was made in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1197-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
Title:
Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey to 1263 (imperfect); Cartulary of Tewkesbury Abbey; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Collatio Compoti Romani et Arabici; Herman of Reichenau, Computus Abbreviates; computistical argumenta
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and 2nd half of the 13th centuries. Two parts were certainly written at and for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin at Tewkesbury, as these contain the annals a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Domitian A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX
Title:
Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect); Runic alphabet; extracts from the Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Heahfridum; Verses on the calendar and other computistical notes; Revelatio beate Hildegardis; (?)John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales, with commentary by John Ergome; Verse account of those who...
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript composed of fragments bound together in the early modern period. These include: f. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; f. 2r: blank, apart from the inscriptions 'Mitte nob. hist. bede de gestis anglor[um]' (in a 12th-century hand) and 'Bind this... and put 4 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 8th century-16th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII
Title:
Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate; Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text; Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD 1153–1179 (imperfect); Quadripartitus (imperfect); Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii), Coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect); List of Welsh cantrefi, Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Angl...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1*: an early modern list of contents; between f. 1* and f. 2r there are two blank folios; ff. 2r-15v: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu, letter of Pope Paschal II, Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate, followed by two blank ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, English., and Welsh
Date Range:
4th quarter 11th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

9. Cotton MS Faustina A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints; Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae; Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo; sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains five parts that were written in England during the 12th and 14th centuries (ff. 3-12; 13-24; 25-98; 99-102; 103-106). The larger part of the manuscript (ff. 25r-97r), copied in the first quarter of the 12th century, contains the De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. 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