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...
A composite miscellany of hagiographic, devotional, and prophetic texts in Latin.
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany containing five parts with hagiographic, devotional and prophetic texts in Latin, probably brought together in the library of Sir Robert Cotton. The miscellany contains one of the three extant copies of the canonisation dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1190), founder ...
ff. 1r-23r: De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum, excerpted from Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum. Decoration: Large initials in red.
ff. 24r-31v: Vita sancti Edmundi archiepiscopi Cantuarensis, 'Beatus eadmundus cantuariensis archiepiscopus' (imperfect); the text contains parts from a vita that is attributed to Eustace of Faversham (fl. c. 1250), prior of the Benedictine priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Martin in Dover, in...
ff. 33r-167r: Canonization dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham: a vita followed by letters of the bishops of Norwich, Winchester and elsewhere relating to lay brethren of the order of Sempringham, the Ordo of Gilbert's canonization, an account of his translation, letters concerning his canonizatio...
ff. 173r-178r: Verses on the life of Henry V, followed by prayers for his commemoration, 'Intencio auctoris edita ad laudem dei . et commendacionem Regis Henrici Quinti'. Decoration: Small initials in blue.
ff. 179r-182v: Fragment of the Meditationes Vitae Christi attributed to Bonaventure: 'Explicit liber aureus vite passionis resurrectionis et ascencionis domni nostril ihesu Christi secundum domini Boneventuram curie Romane Cardinalem'. ff. 182v-183r: Prophecy of Thomas of Canterbury: a vision i...
Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English homilies and liturgy in Old English, possibly created for Bishop Leofric and his cathedral at Exeter in about the 3rd quarter of the 11th century. ff. 2r–55v: Old English Homilies, included some from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, some from the Vercelli Book, and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII (parchment codex)
Vita sancti Dunstani by B; rhymed responsory from an office for Gregory the Great
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the first Vita of St Dunstan (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2342), composed by an author known only as 'B'. This text does not include the prologue found in other copies of B's Vita. The text in these folios was probably copied at the beginning of the eleventh century. On...
De gestis Britonum et Anglorum,attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a history of the kings of Britain and England, beginning 'Non solum audiendis scripturae sacrae', which has been attributed to Peter of Ickham, with further continuations into the 14th century. There are at least three phases of continuation, and one set of changes of scribe...