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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XVIII
Title:: New Testament Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l23; Scrivener apost. 2, imperfect)
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C III
Title:: (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
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C VII
Title:: Works of John Dee
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume.

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