Leaf of the Breviary of Margaret of York, incorporating a mounted papyrus fragment of Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in Evangelia, followed by fragments of the Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus
Thomas More's coronation suite; a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor; Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis
Scope & Content:
A composite volume in three parts, put together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631), containing: (1) the presentation copy of Thomas More's coronation ode; (2) a chronicle from Brutus to Edward the Confessor; (3) Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis. Contents: Cottonian endleaves: ff. i–ii: Parc...
The Katherine Group of Middle English texts; an Abecedarium and other verses; lists of Archbishops
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three parts, bound together: ff. 1-12: An Abecedarium in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; a verse prophecy of the Sibille, verses on the zones of the Earth, the seasons and related topics in Latin; a Greek litany (2nd half of the 14th century); ff. 14-147: The Katherine Gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
New Testament Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l23; Scrivener apost. 2, imperfect)
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f. 2r: Extracts from liturgical prayers with commemorations of patriarchs and abbots with no names with a later, 13th-century hand. f. 2v: List of liturgical canticles (prokimena) ff. 3r-230v: New Testament Lectionary (Apostol) Decoration: Illuminated initials and decorated headpieces.
(1) Old English Illustrated Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus in Old English; (2) Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi; (3) Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii; (4) notes by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf. f. 4r: early modern table of contents. ff. 5r-10v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi, copied in England in the 1st qua...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 17th century
Collection of works by John Dee (1527-1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Including his autobiographical ‘Compendious Rehearsal of John Dee’, geometric and mathematical observations, and his work ‘Of Famous and Rich Discoveries’. f. 1r Table of contents. ff. 2r-13r John Dee, ‘The...