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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C III
Title:: Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Leaf of a noted liturgical book (imperfect) ff. 4r-91r: Honorius of Autun (b. c. 1080, d. c. 1155), Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis (Gem of the Soul or on Divine Services), an allegorical treatise on the liturgy, beginning: 'Incipit liber de divinis officiis venerabi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
Title:: A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil). ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1125-1225
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2
Title:: A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is the second volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV and is made of two parts. The first part (ff. 1-157) continues the collection of hagiographical texts of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1. The second part (ff. 158-166) contains De Abbatibus (On the Abbots) by Æthelwulf (fl. 9th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
Title:: Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus A IV
Title:: Bilingual Rule of St Benedict and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-117v are dated to the mid-11th century: ff. 2r–107r: St Benedict of Nursia (b.c. 480, d. 543 or 547), Regula sancti Benedicti or The Rule of St Benedict, in a bilingual version, with the Old English translation, attributed to St Æthelwold ((b. 904/9, d. 984), Bishop of Winches...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid-11th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 123 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus A XVII
Title:: Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation and royal entrance into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1517
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus D XVI
Title:: Prudentius, Psychomachia; poem in praise of St Laurence; Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio Iudei cum Christiano; Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam; 'Master Rufus', Vita Sancte Afre metrice
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of four originally separate parts perhaps bound together between c. 1250 and c. 1300 (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey (1982), no.19). Contents: ff. 2r-34r: Prudentius, Psychomachia. ff. 34v-35r: A poem in praise of St Laurence. ff. 37r-69v: Gilbert Cris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

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