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111. Cotton MS Vitellius F XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F XIII
Title:
Poems and prophecies, including a didactic poem (2r–65v: Boffey 3458.5, imperfect); (?)John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales (66r–72v); a prophecy (76r–81v: Boffey 3473.5, imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Middle English (2r–65r, 76r–81v); Latin (66r–75v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

112. Cotton MS Claudius A XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A XIII
Title:
Cartulary of the Woodford family of Brentingby (Leicestershire), including a list of the kings of England to Henry VI (1422–61, 1470–71)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, Middle English and Anglo-Norman French
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1449
Extent:
1 item

113. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/10

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Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/10
Title:
Miscellaneous fragments from the Cotton collection, including an itinerary of England and the apparition of a certain Cecilia, and notes by Sir Frederic Madden and Colin Tite
Scope & Content:
A collection of fifteeen bundles containing items from the Cotton collection, many of them damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Formerly housed with a collection of burnt parchment fragments, now classified as Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1–XXXII/9, and sometimes referred to as the 'Cotton...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-1978
Extent:
1 item

114. 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

115. Cotton MS Faustina D IV

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Cotton MS Faustina D IV
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the Franciscan Order, including Stationes ecclesiarum urbis Rome (2v–9r); The rewle and the lif of the brethern minoris (Regula et uita fratrum minorum) (10r–24v); The testament of owre holy fadre seynt Ffrancis (Francis of Assisi, Testamentum) (24v–32r); Pope Clement V (1305–1314), articles for the Franciscan Order (42r–43r); statutes of the chapter of Bercynode (44v–50v); The nine perfections (51r–56r); The absey of seynt Bonaventure or the lyffe of a religio...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (1v–9r, 32v–33v, 71v–73v, 80v–83v); Middle English (10r–71r, 74v–80r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

116. Cotton MS Nero A XIV

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Cotton MS Nero A XIV
Title:
Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse); On god ureisun of ure lefdi and other prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: (in Middle English): ff. 1r–120v: Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) (Boffey 734.5, 3568); ff. 120v–131r: On god ureisun of ure lefdi (ff. 120v-123v; Boffey 631) and other prayers; (in Latin): ff. 131r-v: Apostles’ Creed. f. 131v: A verse beginning ‘O quam iocundum quam dulce for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

117. Cotton MS Tiberius B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III
Title:
Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle; Benedictional; sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges; Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four sections that were separately produced at different periods of time. The first section (ff. 2-11), containing a Calendar of Saints, computistical tables, and lunar and solar tables, was produced at Canterbury in the 1st quarter of the 13th century, but cer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

118. 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

119. 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

120. Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
Title:
Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
11th -15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, composite, containing 4 items

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