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131. Cotton MS Otho C I/2

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Cotton MS Otho C I/2
Title:
Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi; Old English translations of three Lives from Vitas patrum; letter of Boniface to Eadburga; a homily; three homilies of Ælfric (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex includes various theological and hagiographical material, along with a letter and some homilies, all in Old English or translated into Old English: ff. 1r–61v: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi, including a metrical preface, introductory lines, Books 1-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

132. Cotton MS Otho E I

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Cotton MS Otho E I
Title:
Latin-Old English glossary (A–P)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

133. Cotton MS Tiberius A III

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III
Title:
Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

134. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 178
Title:
Genealogy of the West Saxon kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 178r-178v: a genealogy of West Saxon kings to Edward the Martyr. This genealogy was originally part of the same manuscript as the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff. 1-35), which was probably copied between 977 and 978. Decoration: 1 small initial i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

135. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
Title:
Horologium; mass prayer
Scope & Content:
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

136. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

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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

137. 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

138. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
Title:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis; a chronicle of English history between 1042-1346 (imperfect).
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 texts: ff. 1r-35v: the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the late tenth century with additions about the True Cross and a list of archbishops of Canterbury from the late 11th or early 12th century; ff. 36r-120v: an imperfect cartulary of Ely Cathedral, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

139. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v

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Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 1r–35v
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received the pallia
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 60 BC–AD 977. A note on the True Cross in Latin and a list of archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received their pallia were added to these folios in last quarter of the 11th century or the 1st quarter of the 12t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

140. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 36r–120v

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Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff 36r–120v
Title:
Cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory (imperfect), including Inquisitio Eliensis and Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an early, though imperfect, cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory. Most of the text was written in late 12th century. There is Old English text on ff. 99r–100r, 102v–103r. These folios also contain: ff. 36r-68v: Inquisitio Eliensis; ff. 69v-70v: additions from the middle of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-Mid 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

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