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21. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98
Title:
Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-97r: Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (Concerning the Beginning of the Church of Durham), including Bede’s Death Song in Old English and written in an imitative Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule, beginning: ‘Forþam neodfere nenig wyrtheð’. The manuscript cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

22. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135

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Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 10r–120v: Ælfric, Grammar ( imperfect); ff. 120v–130v: Ælfric, Glossary; ff. 131r–135v: Grammatical treatise, beginning ‘Sum verbum substantium’. Decoration: Initials in red, some with penwork decoration in the same colour. Numerous small initials with penwork decoration in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 125 folios

23. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144
Title:
Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis
Scope & Content:
Contents (see Walbers, 'Numbers and Measurement' (2012), table II.10) : ff. 136r–137r: Fragment of a metrical prayer;' beginning, 'Æla drihten leof. æla dema god' (Dobbie, Minor Poems (1942), p. 94); ff. 137v–140r: Dialogue between Adrian and Ritheus; f. 140v: Notes on the names of the two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codes, 9 folios

24. Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175

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Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175
Title:
Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain one of the earliest non-fragmentary copies of the Old English Martyrology. The text begins and ends imperfectly, and there are gaps in the text between 25 January-24 February, 13 March-18 March, and 24 June-2 July. Leaves are missing after ff. 59, 65, and 113. This text was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Julius A X

25. Cotton MS Julius C II, ff 40–41

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C II, ff 40–41
Title:
Transcript of the laws of the kings of Kent
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

26. Cotton MS Julius C II, ff 42–80

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C II, ff 42–80
Title:
Excerpts from Textus Roffensis (Strood, Medway Archives and Local History Centre, DRc/R1) (42r–68r) and Cotton MS Nero A I (68v–80r), transcribed by Francis Tate (d. 1616)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1589-1590
Extent:
1 item

27. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57
Title:
Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of law codes associated with Anglo-Saxon kings or writers, including the earliest known copies of I and II Cnut. These texts include: ff. 3r-16r: I Cnut (3r–16r); ff. 16r-41r: II Cnut; ff. 42r-44v: II-III Edgar; ff. 45r-48r, 51r-57v: law codes of Alfred and Ine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

28. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69
Title:
Anglo-Saxon law codes of Alfred and Ine, in the hand of John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Scope & Content:
This item completes the imperfect copy of the law-code of Alfred and Ine in ff. 3-57.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

29. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177
Title:
Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; various additions, including an Easter-table for 1100–1152, Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund, III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred, law-code on Grið, VIII Æthelred, excerpts on the role of a bishop (imperfect), Excerptiones Ecgberti (1st recension), excerpts on canon law
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of legal texts copied in the early eleventh century in the circle of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. Wulfstan's own hand has been detected adding to and correcting texts, for example on f. 120r (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 164). Later 12th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

30. Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 182–185

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 182–185
Title:
Notes relating to places recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, by John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

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