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1. Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153

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Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153
Title:
A collection of computistical texts and tables (imperfect), charms, prognostics, Easter-table annals for Christ Church, Canterbury, and extracts from Ælfric's De temporibus anni
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a variety of computistical and prognostic material and charms, as well as an image depicting God and an angel giving a scroll to St Pachomius. It also contains annals next to its Easter table, which link the manuscript's production to Christ Church, Canterbury. Originall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Claudius A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A I
Title:
Passio sancti Cypriani (imperfect); Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (imperfect); Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi; papal, episcopal and royal letters; various hagiographies, including Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inventio sancti Nazarii; Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita sancti Hieronymi; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi and Miracula sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episc...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains items from 4 originally separate medieval manuscripts, copied between the mid-10th and 14th century. f. 1r-v: Passio Sancti Cypriani (compare Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2037, imperfect) and Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (1r–v: imperfect), copied in the 14th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 5r–36v

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Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 5r–36v
Title:
Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios include: f. 5r: Alcuin's Carmen xviii, copied in the second half of the 10th century; 5v–36v: Frithegod's Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, numbers 8891–92), copied in the mid-10th century, soon after the text was composed for Oda, archbishop of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A I

4. Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 2–7

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Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 2–7
Title:
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman documents
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of documents pertaining to Christ Church which originally formed part of a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church (Cotton MS Tiberius A II). All the documents are in Latin, apart from those on ff. 4r-6r, and they were copied in the 11th century. They include: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-1st quarter of 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III

5. Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 31–38

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Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 31–38
Title:
Thureth; Anglo-Saxon lawcode VI Æthelred, in Latin and Old English
Scope & Content:
These folios, copied between 1008 (when the lawcode was issued) and 1023 (when Wulfstan, archbishop of York, who may have annotated it, died), contain: f. 31v: Thureth, an Old English verse preface written from the point of view of a 'halgungboc' (a benedictional or pontifical); ff. 32r-35r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III

6. Cotton MS Claudius B IV

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Cotton MS Claudius B IV
Title:
Old English Hexateuch (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains portions of the Hexateuch, in Old English: ff. 1r-1v: Ælfric’s preface to Æthelwærd (imperfect). ff. 1v-72v: Genesis. ff. 72v-105v: Exodus. ff. 105v-110v: Leviticus. ff. 111r-128r: Numbers. ff. 128v-140r: Deuteronomy. ff. 140v-156v: Joshua. The Old English text wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58

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Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58
Title:
Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English homilies and liturgy in Old English, possibly created for Bishop Leofric and his cathedral at Exeter in about the 3rd quarter of the 11th century. ff. 2r–55v: Old English Homilies, included some from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, some from the Vercelli Book, and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII (parchment codex)

8. Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Computistical tables; a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Bede, De die iudicii; a Latin colophon of three hexameters, a recipe in Old English and a list of books.
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: at the top of the leaf the four disciplines of the quadrivium are enunciated in Latin with a translation in Old English above each one. They are followed by the enumeration of the four main sciences presented in Latin and in Old English in the same way. f. 2r: Bede the Vener...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I

9. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 9
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This folio contains part of a chronicle written in Old English. It covers the end of the entry for 1113 AD and the beginning of the entry for 1114. The leaf has been bound the wrong way round in this manuscript (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 188). Decoration: Initial in red (f. 9v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

10. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 11
Title:
Extracts from an Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet
Scope & Content:
This folio includes extracts from Book 4, 1, and 2 of an Old English translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, copied in the last quarter of the 9th century or 1st quarter of the 10th century. A runic alphabet was added to the verso, with names of a few of the runes. In the l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX