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172. Cotton MS Faustina A IX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina A IX
- Title:
- Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes. f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...' ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Æl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
173. 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
174. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
175. Cotton MS Faustina A X
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina A X
- Title:
- Ælfric, Grammar (imperfect); Ælfric, Glossary; proverbs and maxims; grammatical dialogue; Old English translation of the Rule of St Benedict; account known as 'King Edgar's Establishment of the Monasteries' (incomplete)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains texts written in the late 11th century on ff. 3r-101v, with many later annotations. Meanwhile, the second half of the manuscripts (ff. 102r-151v) contains 12th-century copies of Old English works which have been attributed to Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester (d. 984), or ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
176. Cotton MS Faustina E IX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina E IX
- Title:
- Francis Thynne (d. 1608), Collections relating to English history and the nobility
- Scope & Content:
- Language(s): English and Latin; Old English (133r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
177. Cotton MS Faustina E V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina E V
- Title:
- Papers of members of the Society of Antiquaries, among them Arthur Agard (d. 1615), William Camden (d. 1623), Joseph Holland (d. 1605), Thomas Talbot (d. 1595 × 1599) and Francis Tate (d. 1616), including William Hakewill, The Antiquitie of the Lawes of this Iland (3r–4r); Of the Antiquitye and Etymologye of Termes and Tymes for administracione of Iustcye in Englande (9r–10v); Of the Antiquityes of the Howses of Lawe (43r–48r); A proiect touching a petition to be exhibited unto her maiesty fo...
- Scope & Content:
- Language(s): English, Latin and French; Old English (29r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Old, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
178. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/3
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/3
- Title:
- Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho B XI
- Scope & Content:
- These eight fragments most likely belonged to Cotton MS Otho B XI, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript contains copies of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Extent:
- 8 fragments
179. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/10
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
180. Cotton MS Galba A XIV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Galba A XIV
- Title:
- Prayer book, including computus tables and medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents by Richard James (d. 1638). f. 1v: Blank f. 2r–v: Computus tables, ‘Incipit computatio Grecorum de mensibus anni … Omnes uero menses octo idus habent.’ ff. 3r–4v: Prayer to God the Father, ‘Domine deus omnipotens rex regum … in aduersariis meis domine deus ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
