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1. Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII

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Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Titus D XXVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including rules of confraternity
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XXVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XXVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). Contents: f. 1r-v: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r-v: Directions for devotions added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII

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Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Otho A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Cotton MS Tiberius C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C VI
Title:
Psalter with a prefatory pictorial cycle, computistic tables, prayers, confession, a homily in Old English and collects ('The Tiberius Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-6r: Lunar and paschal tables; details and the equivalent tables in the Leofric Missal (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 579, as described in Warren, Leofric Missal (1883)), are as follows: f. 2r: Table for calculating the age of the moon in a lunation of 29 days (Leofric f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 158-166

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Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 158-166
Title:
Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 158r-166v: Æthelwulf (fl. 9th century), De Abbatibus (On the Abbots). f. 166r: ‘Hieronimus Dicit de Situ Babylonis’ (Jerome Says about the Location of Babylon), beginning: 'Babylonem fuisse potentissimam’. f. 166v: ‘Orosius Autem hoc Modo Refert de Eadem Ciuitate’ (Orosius Writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton Tiberius D IV/2

7. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 3–13

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Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 3–13
Title:
Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, with the so-called Dog Days (dies canicularis). f. 9r: A computistical table. f. 9v: Instructions for the computus, beginning: ‘Si vis scire quot concurrentes in anno sunt’. f. 10r: Instructions for calculating the age of the moon, beginning: ‘Hec sunt .vii.tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

8. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 99–102

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 99–102
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 99r-99v: Pseudo-Jerome [here attributed], De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii (On The Fifteen Signs before the Day of Judgement). ff. 99v-102r: Anonymous, Liber de Antichristo (Book of the Antichrist), beginning: ‘De antichristo scire volentibus primo dicemus quare sic vocatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

9. Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 121–128

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Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 121–128
Title:
Vita Beati Birini Episcopi (imperfect); Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi Episcopi (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The folios, copied in the 1st quarter of the 12th century, originally formed the endleaves to a manuscript that originally contained ff. 59-120, 129-209 of the current volume. Contents: ff. 121r–124v: Vita beati Birini episcopi (Life of Saint Birinus). ff. 125r–128v: Wulfstan of Winchester,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VIII

10. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25
Title:
Lines on Egyptian days; a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus; rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter; a note on epacts and concurrents
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English texts on calculating days and times, a fragment of a 'Winchester computus' (see Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, p. 36): f. 22r: A text on prayers and liturgy to be said in the morning, beginning 'þonne þu on morgen...' (edited in Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

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