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91. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis ; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note on the ages of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (a paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis; hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others; Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes two parts. The first part contains a selection of biblical texts, hymns, and other notes, copied in the 10th century in the southern England (possibly at Canterbury). The second part contains Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi, copied in England in the 11th century. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-10th century - late 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

92. Cotton MS Augustus II 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 13
Title:
Confirmation by King Henry VI of England (r. 1422–1461, 1470–1471) for Ely Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by King Henry VI of England of an inspeximus by King Henry V of England of the charters of Ely Cathedral Priory; dated 7 February 1423/4, Westminster. Includes a confirmation of King Edgar of England (943/4–975) to Ely Abbey (Sawyer, no. 779).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment roll

93. Cotton MS Augustus II 17

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Cotton MS Augustus II 17
Title:
Grant of Ceolwulf to Eanmund, endorsed with a note of a purchase by Æthelhere
Scope & Content:
Charter of Ceolwulf, granting to Eanmund land at Canterbury; dated 888, probably for 867 (Sawyer, no. 1204). Endorsed in the same hand as the main text, ‘+ Ciolulf sealde eanmunde his mege ðisne tuun betƿix eum ƿið .cxx. in ęc ęrbe ęðeredes cyninges friols ⁊ his handseten ⁊ sęlen’; in a 9th- or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

94. Cotton MS Augustus II 35

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Cotton MS Augustus II 35
Title:
Account of the purchase of land by Godric of Bourne from his sister, Eadgifu
Scope & Content:
Account of the purchase of land by Godric of Bourne at Offham, Kent, from his sister, Eadgifu; 1044 × 1048 (Sawyer, no. 1473). Upper portion of a tripartite chirograph, with ‘CYROGRAPHVM’ written along lower edge. Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Quomodo Godricus emit terram de offeham.’ and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1044-1048
Extent:

Parchment leaf

95. Cotton MS Augustus II 40

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Cotton MS Augustus II 40
Title:
Charter of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) restoring forfeited lands to Wulfric, minister
Scope & Content:
King Edgar of England restores forfeited lands at Æscesburuh (Woolstone), Denchworth, Garford, Chieveley, Stanmore in Beedon, Chaddleworth, Boxford, Benham, Berkshire; Worting, Tichborne, Hampshire; Stedham, Tillington, Patching, Poynings and Newtimber, Sussex, to Wulfric, minister; dated 960, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

96. Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV
Title:
A collection of Homilies; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes a collection of homilies in Old English; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Fides sancti Gregorii pape; Fides beati Gregorii Neocesariae; Pelagius, Libellus fidei calculation for the year 912.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 9th century-12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex, 224 folios.

97. Cotton MS Augustus II 77

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Cotton MS Augustus II 77
Title:
Grant of King Coenwulf of Mercia (d. 821) to Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury (d. 832)
Scope & Content:
King Coenwulf of Mercia grants ten sulungs (aratra) at Bexley, Kent, with swine-pastures, to Archbishop Wulfred; dated 814, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 175). Endorsed in a 10th-century hand, ‘to byxlea’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Kenulfus rex Wluredo archiepiscopo bixle .x. aratrorum.’; and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

98. 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

99. Cotton MS Claudius D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius D III
Title:
Bede, Martyrology; bilingual Rule of St Benedict; obituary calendar of Wintney Priory
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: an index to the Rule of St Benedict (ff. 52r-140v), A-H, written in the hand of Robert Cotton’s librarian, Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), with an additional list of contents (f. 2r). f. 3r: a rejected leaf from a martyrology, written in Latin. f. 3v: Simon of Waverl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1220-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

100. Cotton MS Augustus II 49

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 49
Title:
Writ of King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Edward confirming to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds the sokes of the eight-and-a-half hundreds (after the appointment of Baldwin as abbot of Bury); 1065 × 1066 (Sawyer, no. 1084).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

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