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Container Reference (shelfmark) Cotton MS Nero A I Language English, Old

1. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57

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Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57
Title:
Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of law codes associated with Anglo-Saxon kings or writers, including the earliest known copies of I and II Cnut. These texts include: ff. 3r-16r: I Cnut (3r–16r); ff. 16r-41r: II Cnut; ff. 42r-44v: II-III Edgar; ff. 45r-48r, 51r-57v: law codes of Alfred and Ine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

2. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69

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Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69
Title:
Anglo-Saxon law codes of Alfred and Ine, in the hand of John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Scope & Content:
This item completes the imperfect copy of the law-code of Alfred and Ine in ff. 3-57.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

3. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177

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Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177
Title:
Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; various additions, including an Easter-table for 1100–1152, Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund, III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred, law-code on Grið, VIII Æthelred, excerpts on the role of a bishop (imperfect), Excerptiones Ecgberti (1st recension), excerpts on canon law
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of legal texts copied in the early eleventh century in the circle of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. Wulfstan's own hand has been detected adding to and correcting texts, for example on f. 120r (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 164). Later 12th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

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