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Project / Collection Cotton Collection Language Irish, Old Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A VII
Title:: Lanfranc, Epistolae; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; Bretha Nemed toísech
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made out of three parts of different origins, written at different times. The first part (ff. 1-112) was produced in England, probably at Rochester, or Normandy in the last quarter of the 11th century and contains the Epistolae (Letters) of Lanfranc (b. 1005 , d. 108...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1075-c 1571
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 132-157
Title:: Córus bretha neimhedh
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 132r-157v: Córus bretha neimhedh (Judgments of Privileged Classes’) (imperfect), written by the scribe Matha O Luinín. Decoration: Several large initials with interlace and zoomorphic decoration in black and red ink. Numerous small initials in black with red highlighting.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish, Old
Date Range:: 1571
Extent:: A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

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