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171. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 18–40

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 18–40
Title:
Old English translation of Felix, Vita sancti Guthlaci
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a prose Old English translation of Felix's Vita S Guthlaci, copied in the third quarter of the 11th century. In the 12th century, an alphabet and the first words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin were added to f. 40v. This text was originally copied together with works attribut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

172. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179

Reference (shelfmark):
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

173. Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f 87r-v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f 87r-v
Title:
Writs of King Cnut of England
Scope & Content:
This half-sized folio contains two writs of King Cnut of England (reigned 1016–35), both dated 1035. This folio includes: f. 87r: a writ stating that Cnut has granted all of Ælmaer's landed property to Archbishop Æthelnoth (Sawyer Number 988); f. 87v: a writ ordering Archbishop Æthelnoth to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B IV

174. 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

175. Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 3r–111v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B I, ff 3r–111v
Title:
Old English Translation of Orosius, Historia adversus paganos
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a copy of the Old English version of Orosius' Historia adversus paganos, written in the early 11th century. Decoration: large initials in green, followed by rubrics in red or oxidized red (ff. 3r, 18r, 19r, 42v, 63r, 84r, 97r); large initial with foliate details followed by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

176. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124

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Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124
Title:
Cosmographia (Comosgraphy of Aethicus Ister), with Latin and Old English glosses.
Scope & Content:
The Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister) was written in the first part of the 8th century, perhaps at Salzburg. The work purports to be an abbreviation by St Jerome (d. 420) of a cosmography made by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. Aethicus relates his travels to islands in the Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

177. Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 37–125

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII, ff 37–125
Title:
Transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, much of it in the hand of Laurence Nowell (d. c. 1570), including a memorandum on the Bewcastle Cross (37r); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D- and E-texts (38r–57r); Irish chronicle (‘Grace’s Annals’), AD 948–1536 (59r–88r); genealogies of Irish families (91r–92v); An abbreuiate of the getting of Ireland and of the decaye of the same, interspersed with maps of Ireland and Scotland (93r–107r); maps of England with Anglo-Saxon place-names (110...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Old English (38r–57r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

179. Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXIV, ff 5–156
Title:
Poetic compilation and miscellany: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia ecclesiastica; De Romanis imperatoribus; Sortes duodecim Patriarcharum; Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum, Vita Sancti Laurentii; Lawrence of Durham, Hypognosticon; Versus Damasi ad amicum suum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus de mysterio missae, Vita beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae, and De excidio Troiae; epitaphs for Augustine of Hippo (d. 430), Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), and others; hymns; computistical texts; De coloribus et mixt...
Scope & Content:
ff. 6r-13r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, excerpt from the year 1066 (Bk VI, chapter 30), beginning: ‘Anno millesimo sexageno quoque seno’. ff. 13r-15v: De Romanis imperatoribus (About the Roman Emperors), beginning: ‘Augustus Iulio Cesari succedens’. ff. 16r-19v: The anonymous Sor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Titus D XXIV.

180. Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 5r–36v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 5r–36v
Title:
Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios include: f. 5r: Alcuin's Carmen xviii, copied in the second half of the 10th century; 5v–36v: Frithegod's Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, numbers 8891–92), copied in the mid-10th century, soon after the text was composed for Oda, archbishop of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A I

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