These folios contain the D-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle covering the years 60 BC–AD 261, 409–633, 693–1079, 1080 (recte 1130?). The majority of the text was copied between the middle of the 11th century and the first half of the 12th century. 9 supply leaves were added in the sixteenth cent...
11th-century collection of computistical, astronomical, geographical and historical texts and Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De oneribus prophetarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of 5 separate items bound together in two volumes: Cotton Tiberius B V/1 includes: ff. 2-73, 77-88: A collection of computistical, historical and astronomical texts, including maps and diagrams; f. 74: Documents relating to Ely Abbey; f. 75: Leaf of a Gospel-book in...
Computistical, historical and astronomical miscellany with added documents from Ely and Exeter
Scope & Content:
This codex contains a collection of texts related to timekeeping, astronomy and geography, possibly made at Canterbury in the mid-11th century, with some later additions. Into this collection have been inserted a series of 10th- and 11th-century documents pertaining to Ely and Exeter, written on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Fragment of Gospel-book containing documents relating to Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This folio contains documents relating to Ely Abbey, including a land grant at Potton, Bedfordshire and regulations of the thegns' guild at Cambridge ('þegna gilde on grantabrycge'), added in blank spaces of an 8th-century Gospel-book. The Gospel-book was probably copied in the 8th century, while...
Leaf of a Gospel-book in Latin, containing Old English manumissions
Scope & Content:
Two manumissions and a notice of a guild assembly at Exeter added in blank spaces of a leaf from a Northumbrian Gospel-book with the end of St Matthew's Gospel.
Leaf of a Gospel-book in Latin containing a record in Old English
Scope & Content:
The last leaf of a Northumbrian gospel-book, with a record of the 'geburas' (roughly translated as inhabitants or serfs) at Hatfield, Hertfordshire added in the late 10th century.
Collection of computistical, geographical, historical and astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a collection of texts, possibly copied at Canterbury in the mid-11th century, with later additions. Apart from the added Vita metrica sancti Nicholai and notes on Battle Abbey, the manuscript is believed to have been copied mostly by one scribe in the 2nd quarter of the 11th...
Cicero, Aratea with scholia; Germano-Roman Pontifical
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two different parts of different origins, written in different times. The first part (ff. 2r-42v) was originally bound together with Harley MS 3667 from the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew, Peterborough, and was possibly written between 1120-1135...