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1711. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 1–103

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 1–103
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; De horologio
Scope & Content:
These folios contain: ff. 1r-102r: Bede, De temporum ratione, copied in the 9th century. Interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and three glosses in Old English were added in the 11th century (ff. 33r, 39v). The table corresponding to the content of chapter XXII on the mathematical calculati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B VI

1712. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182
Title:
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an imperfect copy of the Historia rerum Anglicarum of William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. c. 1198) Augustinian canon and historian. Although the last chapter is now missing, it is mentioned in the table of contents (f.111v). A quire is lacking as the catchword at the bottom o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B VI.

1713. Cotton MS Vespasian B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VII
Title:
List of the kings of Wessex and England (4r–v); statutes of England (4v–99v); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (100r–104v); tract on the steward of England (104v–105v); tract on the marshal of England (105v–107r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 14th century, with occasional additions to 1st half of the 16th century
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1714. Cotton MS Vespasian B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VIII
Title:
Statutes and Ordinances of the Hanseatic Steel-yard in London, 1554 (3r–88v); charters of Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) of England for German merchants (89r–91r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): German; Latin (89r–91r) Dated: c. 1554; 1st half of the 17th century (89r–91r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
c 1554-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1715. Cotton MS Vespasian B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X
Title:
Benedeit, 'Voyage of St Brendan'; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De quindecim signis diei judicii; Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo; Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister).
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three main parts (ff. 1-24; ff. 24-30; ff. 31-124), joined in the early modern period in the library of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). Among the manuscript's contents is the Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister), an 8th-century work that describ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1716. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

1717. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30
Title:
Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo, translated by Manfred of Sicily.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-27r: Robert Kilwardby, De Ortu Scientiarum (On the rise of the sciences), imperfect. ff. 27v-30r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo (On the death of Aristotle, or the apple), translated by Manfred of Sicily. f. 30v: table of contents in a modern hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

1718. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124
Title:
Cosmographia (Comosgraphy of Aethicus Ister), with Latin and Old English glosses.
Scope & Content:
The Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister) was written in the first part of the 8th century, perhaps at Salzburg. The work purports to be an abbreviation by St Jerome (d. 420) of a cosmography made by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. Aethicus relates his travels to islands in the Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

1719. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI
Title:
The Hagnaby Chronicle; The pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, Marguerite de Baux and Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol; The Dover Chronicle; Vita Abbatum Croylandiae; a fragment of a rental; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris, De Genealogia Regum Anglorum; a Franciscan chronicle; a verse chronicle; a theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-61v: The Hagnaby Chronicle. ff. 62r-71v: The pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b.1390, d. 1433), Marguerite de Baux (b. 1394, d. 1469), and Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol (b. 1418, d. 1475). ff. 72r-79r: The Dover Chronicle. ff. 80r-82v: Vitae Ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1720. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83
Title:
A fragment of a rental
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-83v: A fragment of a rental. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

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