These folios contain fragment of the Pontifical which may have been owned by Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. These folios and ff. 39r-86v formed part of the same Pontifical, which was originally bound with the poem, law codes, and Benedictional found on ff. 31v-38v...
These folios include a relatively brief Benedictional which was made c. 1000. It originally supplemented the Pontifical found on ff. 106r-135v and 39r-86v.
The manuscript contains portions of the Hexateuch, in Old English: ff. 1r-1v: Ælfric’s preface to Æthelwærd (imperfect). ff. 1v-72v: Genesis. ff. 72v-105v: Exodus. ff. 105v-110v: Leviticus. ff. 111r-128r: Numbers. ff. 128v-140r: Deuteronomy. ff. 140v-156v: Joshua. The Old English text wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Contents: Half of a leaf from a psalter, used as a lower flyleaf in Cotton Claudius B V (when it was rebound in the post-medieval period), numbered f. 137. The remainder was used as an upper flyleaf, numbered f. 1. The two parts have now been re-joined and bound with other leaves from the same...
Acts of the Council of Constantinople, with an added miniature of the Annunciation to Zacharias
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4-134: Acts of the Council of Constantinople (680), dated to the 2nd quarter of the 9th century; f. 134v: A miniature from a Gospel-book or Gospel lectionary, dated to the 4th quarter of the 8th century or 1st quarter of the 9th century, pasted in beneath the text on f. 134v. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd quarter of the 9th century
This folio was removed from Cotton MS Claudius D VI, a manuscript including Matthew Paris's Abbreuiatio chronicorum. This is folio 12 of that manuscript, comprising the end of the genealogy of the kings of England (f. 12r) and a map of Britain (f. 12v), said to have been drawn by Matthew Paris h...
This folio contains Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23) (imperfect). It was formerly folded in two and formed part of the binding of Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX.
This folio contains Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.25, imperfect). It was formerly folded in two and formed part of the binding of Cotton MS Cleopatra A III.
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis qualiter causarum; Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1r: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v-47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum; f. 53v: blank; ff. 54r–106v: Croniques de London, co...
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; De formis qualiter causarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of grammatical treatises and a poem. It includes: ff. 2r–31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v–47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon (Schaller and Köngsen, Initia (1977), no. 5725); ff. 48r–53r: De formis q...