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502. Cotton MS Nero D VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D VII
- Title:
- The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey (‘the Golden Book of St Albans’)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the names and portraits of benefactors to the Abbey of St Albans with details of their gifts. The preface states that the register was established as part of the grant of confraternity set up by Abbot Thomas and was to be kept on the Abbey's high altar (f. 2r-v). The m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1380-c 1540
- Extent:
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1 volume
503. Cotton MS Nero E I/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I/1
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain the first part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts cov...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
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1 parchment codex
504. Cotton MS Nero E I/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero E I/2
- Title:
- ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral; Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains part of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, the oldest substantial legendary from England, along with parts of a cartulary, office lections and part of a law code which were inserted into the lectionary much later. It contains: ff. 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
505. Cotton MS Otho A VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A VI
- Title:
- Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
- Extent:
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1 volume
506. Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
- Title:
- Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
507. Cotton MS Otho C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho C V
- Title:
- Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (part of the 'The Otho-Corpus Gospels') (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This codex contains part of an Insular Gospel-book which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r–64v: The Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (imperfect). The Gospels of St Luke and St John are contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B and possibly ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 8th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
508. Cotton MS Otho D VIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho D VIII
- Title:
- Calendar; Passional (February–March), comprising: Passio Sancti Ignatii; Vita Sancte Brigide Virginis; Passio Sancti Blasii Episcopi; Passio Sancti Triphonis Martyris; Passio Sancte Agathe Virginis et Martyris; Alcuin, Vita Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Haiminus of Saint-Vaast, Miracula Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Baudemundus, Vita Sancti Amandi Traiectensis Episcopi; Vita Sancti Ansberti episcopi; Vita Sancte Austroberte Virginis; Vita Sancte Euphrasie Virginis; Passio Sancti Valentini Martyris; Pa...
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains six parts (ff. 2-7; ff. 8-173; ff. 174-233; ff. 234-254; f. 255; ff. 256-269) that were produced at separate times in England. The largest part of the manuscript (ff. 8-173) contains a Passionary or Legendary (featuring the lives of saints for liturgical read...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century - 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
509. Cotton MS Otho E XIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Otho E XIII
- Title:
- A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
- Scope & Content:
- This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Breton and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
510. Cotton MS Tiberius A III
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A III
- Title:
- Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
- Scope & Content:
- This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval ta...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex