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381. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.

382. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Leaf of a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Miniature of the Annunciation attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders (f. 1r); lines from the Te Deum and t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1415-c 1420
Extent:
1 folio, bound together in a single volume with the remainder of this manuscript.

383. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v
Title:
Ancrene Riwle, with added poems and prayers
Scope & Content:
Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) in Middle English (ff. 4r–199r: Boffey 734.5, 1820, 1917, 2285, 3568): this is one of the two oldest surviving manuscripts of the text. Added in the 2nd half of the 13th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (ff. 9v lower margin, 57v, 199r–202v): Prayers in Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

202 folios, bound together in a single volume with f. 1 of this manuscript.

384. Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Computistical tables; a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Bede, De die iudicii; a Latin colophon of three hexameters, a recipe in Old English and a list of books.
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: at the top of the leaf the four disciplines of the quadrivium are enunciated in Latin with a translation in Old English above each one. They are followed by the enumeration of the four main sciences presented in Latin and in Old English in the same way. f. 2r: Bede the Vener...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I

385. Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Descriptio Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Retractationes; Gerald of Wales Catalogus brevior librorum suorum; Annales Cambriae; Life of David fitz Gerald (Vita David secundi); Cognacio Brychan.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 56r-58r: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae, Preface. Rubric: 'Stephano Cantuariensi archiepiscopo in Odoporion Giraldi prefatio prima'. Incipit: 'Sicut variis rerum motibus et mutacionibus tempora moventur'. ff. 58r-v: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae. Table of chapter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-Mid 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I.

386. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 8
Title:
Alphabets; fragment of Jerome, De Formis Hebraicarum Litterarum;Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This folio contains alphabets or pseudo-alphabets, part of a fragment of Jerome's De Formis Hebraicarum Litterarum (8r), and Dionysius Exiguus's computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (8r–v: imperfect), copied in the second half of the 8th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 8th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

387. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 2–7

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 2–7
Title:
Aldhelm, Epistola ad Heahfridum
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a copy of Aldhelm's Epistola ad Heahfridum (ff. 3r–7v), copied in the first half of the 11th century. Glosses in Old English were added close to the time the main text was copied (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 149). Decoration: Initial in green with red penwork decoration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

388. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 12–17

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 12–17
Title:
Verses on the calendar and other computistical notes; Revelatio beatae Hildegardis
Scope & Content:
These folios contain verses on the calendar and other computistical notes (ff. 12r–16v) and a text entitled Revelatio beatae Hildegardis (ff. 17r–v), copied in the mid-14th century. Decoration: highlights in red (ff. 12r-13r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

389. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 18–83

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 18–83
Title:
? John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales, with commentary by John Ergome
Scope & Content:
These folios contain one of the earliest copies of the Versus prophetiales, attributed to St John Thwing (or Twenge) of Bridlington, with commentary by John Ergome. It was copied in the late 14th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

390. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 84–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A IX, ff 84–85
Title:
Verse account of those who discovered the Holy Cross; memorandum on King Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–1470, 1471–1483); names of the lordships held by the duke of York.
Scope & Content:
This folios, copied in the 2nd half of the 15th century, contain a verse account of those who discovered the Holy Cross in Latin (ff. 84r–v), a memorandum on King Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–1470, 1471–1483) in Latin (f. 85r), and the names of the lordships held by the duke of York in Mid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX

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