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121. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

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Cotton MS Vespasian D VI
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis ; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note on the ages of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (a paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis; hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others; Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes two parts. The first part contains a selection of biblical texts, hymns, and other notes, copied in the 10th century in the southern England (possibly at Canterbury). The second part contains Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi, copied in England in the 11th century. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-10th century - late 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

122. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XII
Title:
Glossed Hymnal
Scope & Content:
Contents: [f. 1r: Removed 16 December 1912 and bound with other leaves as Royal MS 13 D. i*. Table of contents by William Dugdale on 1v.] f. 2r: Fragment of an account roll (wardrobe?) f. 3r: Table of contents by Richard James. f. 4r: Introductory note, from Isidore, De ecclesiasticis offici...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

123. Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV
Title:
A collection of Homilies; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes a collection of homilies in Old English; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 9th century-12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex, 224 folios.

124. Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XV
Title:
Pontifical, with medieval endleaves; a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, Sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, Homilia xx); Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori; Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis (excerpts, imperfect), with medieval endleaves including further excerpts from De ecclesiasticis officiis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

125. Cotton MS Vespasian D XX

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XX
Title:
Fragments of Ovid's Metamorphoses on medieval endleaves; Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Scope & Content:
Fragments of Ovid's Metamorphoses on medieval endleaves; Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-late 12th century
Extent:

A Parchment codex, 95 folios.

126. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI
Title:
Historia Brittonum; Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This is composite manuscript including three distinct parts, plus an early modern table of contents (f. 1*): ff. 1r-17v: Historia Brittonum; ff. 18r-40v: Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; ff. 41r-71v: Sedulius' Paschale carmen, Hymnus i, and Hymnus ii and an excerpt from Pru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 9th century-1st half 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

127. Cotton MS Vitellius A VII

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Cotton MS Vitellius A VII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A VII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

128. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

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Cotton MS Vitellius A XII
Title:
Computistical memoranda; Ecgberht of York, Dialogus Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae; Hrabanus Maurus, De Computo; Eight computistical poems; De Septem Miraculis Mundi; De Duobus Verticibus Mundi; De Diebus Aegyptiacis; Ordo Librorum Catholicorum in Circulo Anni Legendorum; De Vocibus Litterarum; Greek and Hebrew alphabets with interpretations; Untitled computistical tract; De Sex Aetatibus Hominis; Isidore of Seville (Pseudo-Gildas), De Natura R...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscripts contains six parts (f. 3; ff. 4-77; ff. 79-86; ff. 87-107; ff. 109-135 and ff. 136-185) that were produced between the late 11th and late 12th centuries. The six parts perhaps may all have been written in England and were probably joined together in the library of Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

129. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII

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Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A XIII
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript comprising: ff. 1-2: Early modern flyleaves with notes and contents list; (ff. 3-6: An illustrated chronicle of the kings of England is now bound separately with ff. I-V, 5 former fabric curtains, as Cotton Vitellius A XIII/1); ff. 7-19: Laws and Genealogy of the Kings ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1150-1450
Extent:

Parchment codex

130. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX

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Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX
Title:
Bede, Vita sancti Cuthberti; Latin poems entitled 'De quattuor clavibus sapientiae'; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; extract from Juvencus, Evangeliorum libri; note on 'De sacro baptismate'; hymn for St Martin and 'Alleluia' verses with musical notation; Bede, Vita metrica sancti Cuthberti
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of Latin texts relating to St Cuthbert, including both Bede's prose and verse vitae of Cuthbert and excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica pertaining to Cuthbert. There are Old English glosses, apparently in the same hand as the main text, added to Bede's p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

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