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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 2r–15v
Title:: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctusof Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate
Scope & Content:: These folios contain: ff. 2r–11r: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; ff. 11r-12v: letter of Pope Paschal II (d. 1118); ff. 13v-14r: Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus (Walther 4511); ff. 14r-15v: Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate (Walther 834). Decoration: initials in red an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 16r–29v
Title:: Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious, emperor of Frankia (814–840), beginning 'Noe Cham Canaan' and ending 'Rabanus floruit qui... ipse librum de laude.. composuit.' Folio 29v contains two diagrams of Brutus's descent from Aeneas written in an early modern hand, possibly...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 30r–70v
Title:: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written in both Old English and Latin, known as the 'F' text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It was probably produced at Christ Church Canterbury in the late 11th or early 12th century. Decoration: red initials (ff. 30r and 31r); faded r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 71r–94v
Title:: Robert de Torigni, Chronicle (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain Robert de Torigni's chronicle for the years 1153–1179. Folio 71r contains a letter from Robert of Torigni to Roger, abbot of Bec and a note recounting part of the history of these folios. Decoration: manicula (ff. 75r, 76v, 81v); arches in red in the margins (ff. 77v, 89v,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 95r–110v
Title:: Quadripartitus (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain the oldest surviving copy of the Quadripartitus, a collection of laws-- particularly Latin translations of pre-Conquest lawcodes-- compiled in early twelfth-century England. It is also the only manuscript of the Quadripartitus to contain all known prefaces. It ends imperfectly.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 111r–119v
Title:: Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii); coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This item is identical in script and format to ff. 16-29, together comprising quires I, II and VII of the same original codex. These folios contain: ff. 111r–119r: Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii); f. 119r: a coronation-charter of King Henry I of Englan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 120r–125v
Title:: List of Welsh cantrefi; Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum (imperfect); genealogical chronicle of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England; memorandum of the children of King Edward II of England; memorandum of the battles fought under King Edward III of England
Scope & Content:: These folios contain: ff. 120r-121v: list of Welsh cantrefi in Middle Welsh, copied in the 2nd half of the 15th century; f. 122r: Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum (imperfect), copied in the 4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century; ff. 122r-124r: genea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Welsh
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 126r–161v
Title:: Gloucester Chronicle and record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester
Scope & Content:: These folios contain: ff. 126v-144v: the Gloucester Chronicle, from AD 681 to the abbacy of Walter Froucester (d. 1412); ff. 145v-161v: record of grants to St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 162r–174v
Title:: Scutum Dei triangulum (162r); abecedarium (162v–168v); calendar (169r–174v)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain: f. 162r: diagrams of the Scutum Dei triangulum in Latin and Middle English; ff. 162v-168v: an abecedarium in Latin and Middle English; ff. 169r-174v: a calendar. Decoration: initials, diagrams, lines, and rubrics in red throughout.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Domitian A X, f 210
Title:: Letter of Bishop Gilbert Foliot of London (1163–1187) to Pope Urban III (1185–1187)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

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