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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

2. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

Reference (shelfmark):
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

3. 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

4. Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203
Title:
A Germano-Roman Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The main part of this Pontifical was written by two German scribes in the mid-11th century. Thirteenth English scribes have added materials on blank spaces and additional leaves in the second half of the 11th century according to Wilcox, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2000) and Morgan, The Production ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius C I