Search

Language Latin Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable)

461. Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 104–121

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, ff 104–121
Title:
Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica
Scope & Content:
ff. 104r–121v: Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica, excerpts from book 7, ‘Que sequntur de uita et gestis gloriosi Guillelmi ducis normannorum ac victorissimi regis anglorum extracta fuerunt de quodam libro antiquo monasterii sancte stepgani de cadomo cuius monasterii fundator quondam extitit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A. xix.

462. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

463. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30
Title:
Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo, translated by Manfred of Sicily.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-27r: Robert Kilwardby, De Ortu Scientiarum (On the rise of the sciences), imperfect. ff. 27v-30r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo (On the death of Aristotle, or the apple), translated by Manfred of Sicily. f. 30v: table of contents in a modern hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

464. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 31–124
Title:
Cosmographia (Comosgraphy of Aethicus Ister), with Latin and Old English glosses.
Scope & Content:
The Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister) was written in the first part of the 8th century, perhaps at Salzburg. The work purports to be an abbreviation by St Jerome (d. 420) of a cosmography made by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. Aethicus relates his travels to islands in the Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

465. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 2–77

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 2–77
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note of the age of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (Old English paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis (incomplete); hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various Biblical texts, notes, and hymns in Latin and Old English. Apart from the additions on ff. 76v–77v, most of this text may have been copied between the middle of the 10th century to 2nd half of the 10th century. These folios include: ff. 2r–37v: Book of Proverbs (Par...
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 Vespasian D VI

466. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125
Title:
Stephen, Vita Sancti Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

467. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 2
Title:
Fragment of an account roll (wardrobe?)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D. xii.

468. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, f 157
Title:
Fragment of a missal
Scope & Content:
f. 157: Leaf of a Missal including a fragment for an office of St Nectan.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D. xii.

469. Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, [f 1]

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XII, [f 1]
Title:
Psalter leaf
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-1360
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 13 D. i*.

470. Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 4–169

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 4–169
Title:
Collection of Homilies mainly by Ælfric.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4v-6v: Ælfric, First Series of Homilies, De initio creature. Beginning: 'An anginn is ealra þingen'. Ending: 'ac he ƿearð þurh deofles sƿicdome ut adræfd'. f. 6v: Ælfric, Letter to Sigefyrð [imperfect]. Rubric: 'Emb Clænnysse þe gehadede mæn healden scylen'. Beginning: 'Ælfric a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV.

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »

  • BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) 1,720