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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius C II, ff 40–41
Title:: Transcript of the laws of the kings of Kent
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius C II, ff 42–80
Title:: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis (Strood, Medway Archives and Local History Centre, DRc/R1) (42r–68r) and Cotton MS Nero A I (68v–80r), transcribed by Francis Tate (d. 1616)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1589-1590
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero C III, ff 182–185
Title:: Notes relating to places recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, by John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero E I
Title:: ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 and volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v); Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscripts, now bound in two volumes, contains hagiographical material and documents from 11th- and 12th-century England, including: Cotton Nero E I/1: Part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England, known as the Cotton-Corpus Legendary since fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 11th century - 2nd quarter 12th century
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 1-180, 187-188
Title:: ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 (imperfect) and volume 2 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain part of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/1, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts covering the liturgical year. Part of the first volume is co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 185-186
Title:: Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain office lections in Latin (f. 185r) and excerpts from the law-code IV Edgar (ff. 185v–186v), copied in the late 10th or early 11th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 10th-early 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

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

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