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251. Cotton MS Titus A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XVI
Title:
John Joscelyn and John Parker, Old English-Latin dictionary (Volume II)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of an Old English-Latin dictionary, made by John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), an English clergyman and one of the first scholars of the Old English language, in collaboration with John Parker (b. 1548, d. 1619), son of Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

252. Cotton MS Titus D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV
Title:
Compilation of verse; extracts from Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum; De Romanis imperatoribus; a series of epitaphs; De coloribus et mixtionibus; computistical texts; formulas for the visitation of the sick; Gloria in excelsis; commentary on Juvenal, Satires.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript consists of a main part, and two fragmentary sections (one at the beginning and one at end) that were probably added as flyleaves at some point after the second half of the 14th century. The main part (ff. 5-156) is a diverse compilation written roughly in the last quarter of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

253. Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156
Title:
Poetic compilation and miscellany: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia ecclesiastica; De Romanis imperatoribus; Sortes duodecim Patriarcharum; Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum, Vita Sancti Laurentii; Lawrence of Durham, Hypognosticon; Versus Damasi ad amicum suum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus de mysterio missae, Vita beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae, and De excidio Troiae; epitaphs for Augustine of Hippo (d. 430), Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), and others; hymns; computistical texts; De coloribus et mixt...
Scope & Content:
ff. 6r-13r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, excerpt from the year 1066 (Bk VI, chapter 30), beginning: ‘Anno millesimo sexageno quoque seno’. ff. 13r-15v: De Romanis imperatoribus (About the Roman Emperors), beginning: ‘Augustus Iulio Cesari succedens’. ff. 16r-19v: The anonymous Sor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Titus D XXIV.

254. Cotton MS Titus D XXVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including rules of confraternity
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XXVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XXVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). Contents: f. 1r-v: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r-v: Directions for devotions added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

255. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

256. Cotton MS Vespasian A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A V
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vespasian A V
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
4 items

257. Cotton MS Vespasian A V, ff 3–92

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A V, ff 3–92
Title:
Excerpts from English chronicles and records, transcribed by William Lambarde (d. 1601), including: The names of those persones that haue put in their claymes to do seruice at the Coronation of our souereigne Lorde Kinge Edward the Sixte (4r–10r); The maner, forme and usage of Gilbert de Strogel, marshal of Englande, in thexercisinge that office at the Coronacion of Kinge Henry the Seconde (11r–13v); The usage of Thomas Brotherton in thoffice of marshalsie (14r–15v); Gervase of Tilbury, Otia ...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (3r–41r, 43r–92r); Old English (42r–v); English (77v–78r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

258. Cotton MS Vespasian A V, ff 93–203

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A V, ff 93–203
Title:
Transcriptions from English chronicles and records by Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), comprising: Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio atque procursu Dunhelmensis ecclesie (93r–127v); Thomas Sprott and others, Chronicles (128r–147r); cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII) (148r–194v); Gregory of Caerwent, Chronicle (195r–203v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (93r–147r, 195r–203v); Latin and Old English (148r–194v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

259. Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV
Title:
Calendar, Latin-Old Cornish Glossary, 'Vita Sanctorum Wallensium'; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto, and an Altercatio inter Urbanum et Clementem; Letter-book of Archbishop Wulfstan
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, containing texts made between the early 11th and late 12th century. These include: ff. 1-105: a calendar, Latin-Old Cornish glossary, documents pertaining to Wales, and lives of Welsh saints ('Vita Sanctorum Wallensium'), which was copied in the 2nd half of 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cornish, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of 11th century-2nd half 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

260. Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV, ff 114–179

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV, ff 114–179
Title:
Letter-book of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York
Scope & Content:
The collection compromises a selection of letters of Alcuin (d. 804), abbot of St Martin, Tours and royal advisor, of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of Canterbury, and others, and various ecclesiastical decrees and documents from England. There are minor corrections made ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

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