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132. Cotton MS Nero D IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D IV
- Title:
- Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 700
- Extent:
- 1 volume
133. Cotton MS Nero E I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v); Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscripts, now bound in two volumes, contains hagiographical material and documents from 11th- and 12th-century England, including: Cotton Nero E I/1: Part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England, known as the Cotton-Corpus Legendary since fra...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 11th century - 2nd quarter 12th century
- Extent:
-
2 parchment codices
134. Cotton MS Otho A VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A VI
- Title:
- Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
135. Cotton MS Otho A VIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A VIII
- Title:
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
136. Cotton MS Otho A XVIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A XVIII
- Title:
- Cotton Manuscript Otho A XVIII
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- Unspecified
- Extent:
- 8 items
137. Cotton MS Otho B II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho B II
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 10th or early 11th century was written in Old English, most likely by six scribes that were working in South-East England, perhaps London. The manuscript contains the Regula Pastoralis (Rule of Pastoral Care) by Pope Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604),...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
138. Cotton MS Otho B X
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho B X
- Title:
- Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
139. Cotton MS Otho B XI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho B XI
- Title:
- Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Old English version) (1r-38v); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, G-text (39r-47v); Old English Laws (Æthelstan II, Alfred, Ine) (48r-53v)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- Mid 10th century-1st half of the 11th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
140. Cotton MS Otho C I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho C I
- Title:
- Cotton Manuscript Otho C I
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript now forms two volumes. Cotton Otho C I/1 contains an Old English Gospel-book copied in the 11th century. Cotton Otho C I/2 contains an Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogues and three lives from the Vitas Patrum, along with sermons and a letter from Boni...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- early 11th century-mid 11th century
- Extent:
- 2 parchment codices