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231. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85
Title:
Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

232. Cotton MS Vitellius C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C IX
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius C IX
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

233. Cotton MS Vitellius C IX, ff 3–232, 235–239, 252–331

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C IX, ff 3–232, 235–239, 252–331
Title:
Miscellaneous historical papers, including Christopher Watson, The History of Duresme (Durham) (64r-128v); copies of Anglo-Saxon charters (129r-131v); Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan (133r-154v); and Life of King Arthur (155r-157r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
15th century-2nd half 16th century
Extent:
1 item

234. Cotton MS Vitellius C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C V
Title:
Old English Homilies, including the first series of Ælfric, Catholic Homilies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies copied in last quarter of the 10th century or 1st quarter of the 11th century. In the 1st half of the 11th century, further sermons, including sermons from the second series and other homilies in the style of Ælfric, were in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

235. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25
Title:
Lines on Egyptian days; a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus; rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter; a note on epacts and concurrents
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English texts on calculating days and times, a fragment of a 'Winchester computus' (see Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, p. 36): f. 22r: A text on prayers and liturgy to be said in the morning, beginning 'þonne þu on morgen...' (edited in Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

236. Cotton MS Vitellius D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius D VII
Title:
Collections of John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

237. Cotton MS Vitellius D XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius D XVII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius D XVII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

238. Cotton MS Vitellius D XVII, ff 4–92

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius D XVII, ff 4–92
Title:
Ælfric, Catholic Homilies and saints’ Lives (ff. 4–41, 50–92: imperfect); Life of St Pantaleon (ff. 41–50: imperfect)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 item

239. Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

240. Cotton Nero E I/2, ff 185-186

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Nero E I/2, ff 185-186
Title:
Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain office lections in Latin (f. 185r) and excerpts from the law-code IV Edgar (ff. 185v–186v), copied in the late 10th or early 11th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

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