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91. Cotton MS Faustina A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints; Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae; Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo; sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains five parts that were written in England during the 12th and 14th centuries (ff. 3-12; 13-24; 25-98; 99-102; 103-106). The larger part of the manuscript (ff. 25r-97r), copied in the first quarter of the 12th century, contains the De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

92. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98

Reference (shelfmark):
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

93. Cotton MS Faustina A X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A X
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar (imperfect); Ælfric, Glossary; proverbs and maxims; grammatical dialogue; Old English translation of the Rule of St Benedict; account known as 'King Edgar's Establishment of the Monasteries' (incomplete)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts written in the late 11th century on ff. 3r-101v, with many later annotations. Meanwhile, the second half of the manuscripts (ff. 102r-151v) contains 12th-century copies of Old English works which have been attributed to Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester (d. 984), or ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

94. Cotton MS Faustina E IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina E IX
Title:
Francis Thynne (d. 1608), Collections relating to English history and the nobility
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English and Latin; Old English (133r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

95. Cotton MS Faustina E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina E V
Title:
Papers of members of the Society of Antiquaries, among them Arthur Agard (d. 1615), William Camden (d. 1623), Joseph Holland (d. 1605), Thomas Talbot (d. 1595 × 1599) and Francis Tate (d. 1616), including William Hakewill, The Antiquitie of the Lawes of this Iland (3r–4r); Of the Antiquitye and Etymologye of Termes and Tymes for administracione of Iustcye in Englande (9r–10v); Of the Antiquityes of the Howses of Lawe (43r–48r); A proiect touching a petition to be exhibited unto her maiesty fo...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English, Latin and French; Old English (29r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

96. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/3
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho B XI
Scope & Content:
These eight fragments most likely belonged to Cotton MS Otho B XI, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The manuscript contains copies of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
8 fragments

97. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/10
Title:
Miscellaneous fragments from the Cotton collection, including an itinerary of England and the apparition of a certain Cecilia, and notes by Sir Frederic Madden and Colin Tite
Scope & Content:
A collection of fifteeen bundles containing items from the Cotton collection, many of them damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Formerly housed with a collection of burnt parchment fragments, now classified as Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/1–XXXII/9, and sometimes referred to as the 'Cotton...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-1978
Extent:
1 item

98. Cotton MS Galba A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba A XIV
Title:
Prayer book, including computus tables and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents by Richard James (d. 1638). f. 1v: Blank f. 2r–v: Computus tables, ‘Incipit computatio Grecorum de mensibus anni … Omnes uero menses octo idus habent.’ ff. 3r–4v: Prayer to God the Father, ‘Domine deus omnipotens rex regum … in aduersariis meis domine deus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

99. Cotton MS Galba E II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E II
Title:
Cartulary of St Benet of Hulme Abbey, with indexes (1r–27r, 183r–188r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Old English boundaries; Anglo-Norman French (196v, 201r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1529
Extent:
1 item

100. Cotton MS Julius A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): ff. 2-9: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect), 1st quarter of the 12th century; ff. 10-135: Ælfric, Grammar (10r–120v: imperfect), Ælfric, Glossary (120v–130v); a grammatical treatise,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-11th century to 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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