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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

2. Cotton MS Faustina A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A IX
Title:
Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes. f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...' ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Æl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Otho B II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B II
Title:
Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 10th or early 11th century was written in Old English, most likely by six scribes that were working in South-East England, perhaps London. The manuscript contains the Regula Pastoralis (Rule of Pastoral Care) by Pope Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. 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

5. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185
Title:
Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; Exemplum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential, with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r. f. 184v: The Lord’s Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader ure be giert on heofena’. f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a bishop with the ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

7. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10
Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a fragment of the Compendium in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitier (b. c. 1130, d. 1205), ending with a diagram of Jesus, his apostles, Paul and Barnabas. These folios were copied in the late 12th or early 13th century. Chapter titles pertaining to Macer's De viribus her...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III