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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 179–213
Title:: Reginald of Canterbury, Vita S. Malchi; Carmina
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 179r-213v: Reginald of Canterbury (d. c. 1112), Vita Sancti Malchi (Life of St Malchus), preceded by a prologue (f. 179r) and followed by Carmina (Poems), beginning: ‘Prelia gesturus’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, green and blue. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, f 3
Title:: Computistical memoranda
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 3r: Computistical memoranda. [f. 3v is blank]. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 87–107
Title:: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii; computistical tables; untitled computistical treatise with hand diagrams
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 87r-97v: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii (1175), with an introduction on f. 87r, beginning: ‘Sepe [auctorum] volumina qui de compoto vel principaliter’; the treatise on ff. 87r-97v, beginning: 'Compotus est scientia commensurandi tempora mediis motibus solis et lunae'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 109–135
Title:: Serlo of Bayeux, poems; Godfrey of Winchester, Liber Proverbiorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae; miscellany of poems by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbod of Rennes, Ausonius, and Godfrey of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 109r-114r: Serlo of Bayeux (d. 1104), canon of the cathedral chapter of Bayeux, collection of short poems [including: Versus Serlonis Parisiacensis ad Muriel Sanctimonialem Virginem [Muriel, sister of Odo (d. 1097), Bishop of Bayeux]; Ad Virginem Deo Dicatam Versus; Incipiunt Vers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185
Title:: Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; Exemplum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential, with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r. f. 184v: The Lord’s Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader ure be giert on heofena’. f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a bishop with the ab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166
Title:: Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10
Title:: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a fragment of the Compendium in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitier (b. c. 1130, d. 1205), ending with a diagram of Jesus, his apostles, Paul and Barnabas. These folios were copied in the late 12th or early 13th century. Chapter titles pertaining to Macer's De viribus her...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84
Title:: Adam Marsh, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: These folios contain the largest collection of letters of Adam Marsh or Adam de Marisco (d. 1259), a Franciscan friar and biblical scholar. The last letter ends imperfectly. Decoration: Initials and rubrics in red or brown (f. 26r, 61v). Text in three columns (f. 57r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd third of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 143–156
Title:: Domesday abbreviation for Kent
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a 12th-century copy of an abbreviation of the Domesday survey of Kent. These membranes originally formed a roll, but have been cut apart and rearranged in book form (see Clarke, 'Condensing and Abbreviating' (2016), p. 258). Contents: ff. 143r-156r: Domesday abbreviation ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 165-212
Title:: Jocelin of Furness, Vita sancti Kentigerni
Scope & Content:: These folios contain the earlier of two surviving copies of Jocelin of Furness's Vita sancti Kentigerni (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 4646. It was copied in the late 12th-century. Contents: ff. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

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