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31. Cotton MS Nero E I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/1
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the first part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts cov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

32. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129
Title:
Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
This is the only surviving copy of the Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, with alternating sections in prose and verse. Parts of the text that are now damaged were recorded in Junius's notebook (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 12). Both this manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

33. Cotton MS Otho A XVIII, f 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A XVIII, f 131
Title:
Aelfric, Homily on St Laurence (imperfect)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

34. Cotton MS Otho C I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C I/1
Title:
Gospel-book; bull of Pope Sergius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect Gospel-book, written in Old English (the so-called 'West Saxon' version of the Gospels). It was copied in the 1st half of the 11th century. In the mid-11th century, an Old English translation of a bull of Pope Sergius which benefitted Malmesbury Abbey was ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

35. Cotton MS Otho C I/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C I/2
Title:
Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi; Old English translations of three Lives from Vitas patrum; letter of Boniface to Eadburga; a homily; three homilies of Ælfric (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex includes various theological and hagiographical material, along with a letter and some homilies, all in Old English or translated into Old English: ff. 1r–61v: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi, including a metrical preface, introductory lines, Books 1-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

36. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178
Title:
Genealogy of the West Saxon kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 178r-178v: a genealogy of West Saxon kings to Edward the Martyr. This genealogy was originally part of the same manuscript as the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff. 1-35), which was probably copied between 977 and 978. Decoration: 1 small initial i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

37. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
Title:
Horologium; mass prayer
Scope & Content:
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

38. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
Title:
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

39. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177
Title:
St Æthelwold, Regularis concordia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 174r-177v: Regularis Concordia, probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates. The rest of the manuscript is in Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff. 158-198. The text seems to have been dismembered by Robert Cotton. Using wormholes and an early modern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

40. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received the pallia
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 60 BC–AD 977. A note on the True Cross in Latin and a list of archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received their pallia were added to these folios in last quarter of the 11th century or the 1st quarter of the 12t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

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