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91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

95. Cotton MS Otho E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E I
Title:
Latin-Old English glossary (A–P)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

96. Cotton MS Tiberius A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III
Title:
Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

97. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
Title:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis; a chronicle of English history between 1042-1346 (imperfect).
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 texts: ff. 1r-35v: the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the late tenth century with additions about the True Cross and a list of archbishops of Canterbury from the late 11th or early 12th century; ff. 36r-120v: an imperfect cartulary of Ely Cathedral, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

98. Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1
Title:
Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
11th -15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, composite, containing 4 items

99. Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
Title:
Two cartularies of Worcester Cathedral Priory (including ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’) and supplementary material, including a homily and an account of Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two cartularies pertaining to Worcester Cathedral Priory, one written in the early eleventh century and the other written in the late eleventh century. The earlier cartulary contains notes possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, archbishop of Worcester-York (d. 1023). The seco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-16th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

100. Cotton MS Tiberius B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B I
Title:
Old English Translation of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos; Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises two independent portions, bound together in the 17th century, plus early modern prefatory material and medieval endleaves: f. 1r: early modern list of contents; f. 2r: Cottonian frontispiece; f. 2v: faded early modern lines; ff. 3r-111v: Old English version of Orosi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half 11th century-2nd half 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

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