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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
Title:: Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
Title:: Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
Title:: Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Davis80
Title:: Glossed Book of Ezekiel
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Book of Ezekiel with Gloss. The manuscript, according to Julian Harrison (unpublished note, see 'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings ( «http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings» [accessed 02 March 2018]) was written by a French scribe in France or England...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Davis386
Title:: The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with Glosses
Scope & Content:: The manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century contains the Gospels of Matthew and Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It features a Parisian Romanesque binding by the so-called ‘Starry Griffin’ binder, and historiated initials by the so-called ‘Almagest’ workshop, named after a c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton Ch 132
Title:: Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to Michael the monk on behalf of the church of St Michael of Coternio, of land in Casalovoni
Scope & Content:: Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to Michael the monk, acting for the church of St Michael of Coternio, of a piece of land in the ville of Casalovoni in the territory of Mantua. Given at Gonzaga, 12 May 1105, with the notarial mark and signature of Uvido, notary. Endorsed: in a 12th-century hand, ‘P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1105
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton Ch 134
Title:: Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus
Scope & Content:: Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus; given at Pontem Ducis, 4 November 1109, written by the scribe Ribaldo, chaplain of Matilda of Tuscany, with the signatures of Baldus the Judge, Conon, and Michael the Archpresbyter.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1109
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton Ch 135
Title:: Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa
Scope & Content:: Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa. Originally given at Massa Castle, 13 April 1112. Bearing the notarial mark and certificate of Pietro de Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1198 and 1212
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton Ch 366
Title:: Lease by Adam Blackadder, prior of Coldingham, to Elizabeth Mautyme, Lady Fast Castle
Scope & Content:: Lease by Adam Blackadder [r. 1531-41], prior of Coldingham, to Elizabeth Mautyme, Lady Fast Castle, of all the priory’s lands in Edrom [Berwickshire] for 19 years. Given at Coldingham, 1536. Signed by ‘Adam, prior of Coldingham / Alexander Lindsay, subprior / Jacob Spenis / Adam Rimsema / Willia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: 1536
Extent:: 1 leaf

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