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1. Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178

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Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178
Title:
Æcerbot charm
Scope & Content:
These folios include a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land (Æcerbot), added in the 1st half of the 11th century. It is primarily in Old English, with some Latin phrases. Contents: ff. 176r-178r: a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land known as Æcerbot. [f. 178v is blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII

2. Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130

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Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130
Title:
Ælfric, Life of St Martin (imperfect); Ælfric, Life of St Thomas; Life of St Mildred (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English hagiographical works copied in the mid-11th century. Contents: ff. 93r–111v, 125r–130v: Ælfric (b. 955, d. 1010), Life of St Martin (imperfect). ff. 111v–121v: Ælfric, Life of St Thomas. ff.121v–124v: Life of St Mildred (imperfect). Decoration: Initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd to 3rd quarter of 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A XIV

3. Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff 105–202

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Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff 105–202
Title:
Liber Terrarum of Abingdon Abbey and other memoranda, including Old English boundary–clauses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 105r-177r: Liber Terrarum of Abingdon Abbey ('Historia ecclesie Abbendonensis'). ff. 177v-178r: Confirmation-charter of Richard I, king of England (r. 1189-99), for Abbot Hugh (r. 1189/90-1221), his successors and the monks of Abingdon, Gisors, 29 March 1190 (late 12th century) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius C IX

4. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII, ff 4–37

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Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII, ff 4–37
Title:
Prudentius, Psychomachia; Pseudo-Columbanus, Precepta Vivendi (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an illustrated copy of Prudentius's Psychomachia made between the late 10th and early 11th century, with Old English titles and glosses added in the early 11th century. Contents: ff. 4r-37r: Prudentius, Psychomachia, with Old English titles and glosses added in the early ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII

5. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98
Title:
Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-97r: Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (Concerning the Beginning of the Church of Durham), including Bede’s Death Song in Old English and written in an imitative Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule, beginning: ‘Forþam neodfere nenig wyrtheð’. The manuscript cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

6. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129

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Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129
Title:
Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
This is the only surviving copy of the Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, with alternating sections in prose and verse. Parts of the text that are now damaged were recorded in Junius's notebook (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 12). Both this manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

7. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178
Title:
Genealogy of the West Saxon kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 178r-178v: a genealogy of West Saxon kings to Edward the Martyr. This genealogy was originally part of the same manuscript as the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff. 1-35), which was probably copied between 977 and 978. Decoration: 1 small initial i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

8. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
Title:
Horologium; mass prayer
Scope & Content:
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

9. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
Title:
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

10. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177
Title:
St Æthelwold, Regularis concordia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 174r-177v: Regularis Concordia, probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates. The rest of the manuscript is in Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff. 158-198. The text seems to have been dismembered by Robert Cotton. Using wormholes and an early modern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

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