Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 10r–120v: Ælfric, Grammar ( imperfect); ff. 120v–130v: Ælfric, Glossary; ff. 131r–135v: Grammatical treatise, beginning ‘Sum verbum substantium’. Decoration: Initials in red, some with penwork decoration in the same colour. Numerous small initials with penwork decoration in ...
Unidentified theological text (f. 94r–v: imperfect); Hildebert of Lavardin (Le Mans), Carmina i, ix (f. 95v: Walther 11711, 18382): 1st half of the 13th century; Latin; origin British Isles; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Cronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum, to Pope Urban IV (1261–64) (ff. 3r–14r); Bonizo of Sutri, Cronica Romanorum pontificum (ff. 15r–30r); Cronica regum Mannie et insularum [Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles], AD 1000–1316, with a record of the bishops of the Western Isles to John Donkan (1374–87) (ff. 31r–52r); territorial survey (ff. 53r–54v): 3rd quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 14th century; Latin; origin Rushen Abbey; owned by John Leland (d. 155...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-4th quarter of the 14th century
John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum (ff. 55r–60v: Walther 17789); Nigel Witeker, Contra curiales et officiales clericos (ff. 60v–65r: verse, Walther 14366): 2nd half of the 15th century; Latin; origin Italy; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Verse miscellany, including ‘Uos qui sub Christo mundo certatis in isto’ (f. 66r–v: Walther 20826); (?)Philippe de Thaon, De conflictu corporis et anime (ff. 72v–77r: Dean 692); theological miscellany (ff. 79v–81r): 1st quarter of the 13th century; Latin (ff. 66r–72r, 77r–81v); Anglo-Norman French (ff. 72v–77r); origin British Isles; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Verse miscellany, including De expulsione Ade et Eve de paradiso (ff. 82r–83r: Walther 2761), De inuentione sancte Crucis (ff. 83v–84r: Walther 3482), Versus de cruce Christi (ff. 84v–88v), and De mutatione mala ordinis Cistercii (ff. 88v–90r: Walther 4817): mid 14th century; Latin; origin British Isles; owned by (?)Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Moralium dogma philosophorum (Bloomfield 3095): mid 13th century; Latin; origin France; owned by (?)Nicholas Wilson, last quarter of the 16th century or 1st quarter of the 17th century; (?)Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba (ff. 125r–131r: BHL 5951); lessons on the feast of the apparition of St Michael (ff. 131v–133r); neums (f. 133v): Latin; 1489 (ff. 125r–131r); last quarter of the 15th century (ff. 131v–133r); origin England, made for John Taylor, chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (d. 1492); owned by St Michael’s Mount; Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)