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21. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135

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Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 10–135
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 10r–120v: Ælfric, Grammar ( imperfect); ff. 120v–130v: Ælfric, Glossary; ff. 131r–135v: Grammatical treatise, beginning ‘Sum verbum substantium’. Decoration: Initials in red, some with penwork decoration in the same colour. Numerous small initials with penwork decoration in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 125 folios

22. Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144

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Cotton MS Julius A II, ff 136–144
Title:
Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis
Scope & Content:
Contents (see Walbers, 'Numbers and Measurement' (2012), table II.10) : ff. 136r–137r: Fragment of a metrical prayer;' beginning, 'Æla drihten leof. æla dema god' (Dobbie, Minor Poems (1942), p. 94); ff. 137v–140r: Dialogue between Adrian and Ritheus; f. 140v: Notes on the names of the two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codes, 9 folios

23. Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175

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Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175
Title:
Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain one of the earliest non-fragmentary copies of the Old English Martyrology. The text begins and ends imperfectly, and there are gaps in the text between 25 January-24 February, 13 March-18 March, and 24 June-2 July. Leaves are missing after ff. 59, 65, and 113. This text was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Julius A X

24. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57
Title:
Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of law codes associated with Anglo-Saxon kings or writers, including the earliest known copies of I and II Cnut. These texts include: ff. 3r-16r: I Cnut (3r–16r); ff. 16r-41r: II Cnut; ff. 42r-44v: II-III Edgar; ff. 45r-48r, 51r-57v: law codes of Alfred and Ine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

25. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69

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Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69
Title:
Anglo-Saxon law codes of Alfred and Ine, in the hand of John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Scope & Content:
This item completes the imperfect copy of the law-code of Alfred and Ine in ff. 3-57.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

26. Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177

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Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177
Title:
Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; various additions, including an Easter-table for 1100–1152, Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund, III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred, law-code on Grið, VIII Æthelred, excerpts on the role of a bishop (imperfect), Excerptiones Ecgberti (1st recension), excerpts on canon law
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of legal texts copied in the early eleventh century in the circle of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. Wulfstan's own hand has been detected adding to and correcting texts, for example on f. 120r (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 164). Later 12th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

27. 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

28. 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

29. Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, ff 165–166

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Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, ff 165–166
Title:
Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata; Versus ad coniugem with Old English gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata, fragment (ff. 166r–v, 165v); Prosper of Aquitaine, Uersus ad coniugem, fragment (ff. 165v–r: Schaller Initia carminum 458 ), 3rd quarter of the 9th century, with an Old English gloss dated to the 1st half of the 11th century. The pages are misbound ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1

30. Cotton MS Tiberius B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B I
Title:
Old English Translation of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos; Menologium; Maxims II; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C-text
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises two independent portions, bound together in the 17th century, plus early modern prefatory material and medieval endleaves: f. 1r: early modern list of contents; f. 2r: Cottonian frontispiece; f. 2v: faded early modern lines; ff. 3r-111v: Old English version of Orosi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half 11th century-2nd half 12th century
Extent:

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