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121. Cotton MS Otho A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VI
Title:
Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

1 volume

122. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129

Reference (shelfmark):
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

123. Cotton MS Otho A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

124. Cotton MS Otho A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A XVIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Otho A XVIII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
8 items

125. Cotton MS Otho A XVIII, f 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A XVIII, f 131
Title:
Aelfric, Homily on St Laurence (imperfect)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

126. 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

127. Cotton MS Otho B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B X
Title:
Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

128. Cotton MS Otho B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B XI
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Old English version) (1r-38v); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, G-text (39r-47v); Old English Laws (Æthelstan II, Alfred, Ine) (48r-53v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-1st half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

129. Cotton MS Otho C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C I
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Otho C I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript now forms two volumes. Cotton Otho C I/1 contains an Old English Gospel-book copied in the 11th century. Cotton Otho C I/2 contains an Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogues and three lives from the Vitas Patrum, along with sermons and a letter from Boni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
early 11th century-mid 11th century
Extent:
2 parchment codices

130. Cotton MS Otho C I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C I/1
Title:
Gospel-book; bull of Pope Sergius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect Gospel-book, written in Old English (the so-called 'West Saxon' version of the Gospels). It was copied in the 1st half of the 11th century. In the mid-11th century, an Old English translation of a bull of Pope Sergius which benefitted Malmesbury Abbey was ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

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