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131. Cotton MS Julius E VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius E VII
Title:
Ælfric, Lives of Saints; Ælfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin; De falsis diis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the earliest known copies of Ælfric's Lives of the Saints, along with two other texts associated with Ælfric and four possibly anonymous saints' lives (Euphrosyne, Eustace, Mary of Egypt, and the Seven Sleepers). All of these texts were apparently intended as a si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st third of the 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

132. Cotton MS Nero A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I
Title:
Early modern index; Anglo-Saxon law codes I Cnut, II Cnut, II-III Edgar, the law codes of Alfred and of Ine (imperfect), Romscot, and Judex; completion of the law codes of Alfred and of Ine by John Joscelyn (d. 1603); Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; other additions, including an Easter table, the law codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund (imperfect), III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred; a law code beginning 'Godes grið', in the style of...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains Anglo-Saxon law codes and writings related to Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-v, 178r-180v: early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione Presbiterii'; ff. 3r-57v: Ang...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th-16th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

133. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57

Reference (shelfmark):
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

134. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69

Reference (shelfmark):
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

135. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177

Reference (shelfmark):
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

136. Cotton MS Nero C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Nero C III
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
14 items

137. Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 182–185

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 182–185
Title:
Notes relating to places recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, by John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

138. Cotton MS Nero D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero D IV
Title:
Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 700
Extent:
1 volume

139. Cotton MS Nero E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v); Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscripts, now bound in two volumes, contains hagiographical material and documents from 11th- and 12th-century England, including: Cotton Nero E I/1: Part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England, known as the Cotton-Corpus Legendary since fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century - 2nd quarter 12th century
Extent:

2 parchment codices

140. Cotton MS Nero E I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/1
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the first part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts cov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

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