The four Gospels ('Athelstan' or 'Coronation' Gospels)
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The four Gospels with prefatory texts. The detailed contents are as follows: 1. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (ff. 3r-5v); 2. Prologue to the Gospels (ff. 5v-8r); 3. Letter from Eusebius to Carpianus (ff. 8r-9r); 4. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum, II (ff. 9r-9v); 5. Argumentum Evangelii secundum...
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.
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
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These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
Contents: ff. 174r-177v: Regularis Concordia, probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates. The rest of the manuscript is in Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff. 158-198. The text seems to have been dismembered by Robert Cotton. Using wormholes and an early modern...
Prophetie Merlini (2r–5r) and other prophecies (5r–6r); Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula (6r, 8r–21r, 25v–34v, 37v, 40r–48v); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (6r–8r, 21r–25v); letters of Pope Alexander III (1159–81) and Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (1162–70) (34v–37v); annalistic continuation, AD 1199–1216 (48v–51v); Osney Chronicle, AD 601–1347 (52r–98r); Award of Norham (98v–99r); annalistic text, AD (?)1303–1308 (99v); Prophecies of Merlin (100r–v); computistical table, AD ...
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (100r–v, 101v)
Thomas Sprott, Chronicle of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, to AD 1221 (107r–168v), with a continuation to Abbot Thomas de Fyndon (1283–1310) (168v–174r); documents relating to St Augustine’s, Canterbury (175r–180r)
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Dated: last quarter of the 13th century; 1st quarter of the 14th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (117r, 168v–180r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received the pallia
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These folios contain the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 60 BC–AD 977. A note on the True Cross in Latin and a list of archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received their pallia were added to these folios in last quarter of the 11th century or the 1st quarter of the 12t...
