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942. Cotton MS Domitian A I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A I
- 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; Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of...
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains: ff. 2r-55v: 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; Comp...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- mid-10th century- mid-16th century
- Extent:
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1 volume
943. Cotton MS Nero D IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero D IV
- Title:
- Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 700
- Extent:
- 1 volume
944. Cotton MS Augustus II 26 and 27
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 26 and 27
- Title:
- Grant of King Offa of Mercia (d. 796) to Abbot Stithberht; with confirmation by Pilheard, comes of King Coenwulf of the Mercians (d. 821)
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Augustus II 27 (f. 1r): King Offa of Mercia grants 30 hides (manentes) between Harrow(-on-the-Hill) and the Lidding (Wealdstone Brook), Middlesex, and east of the Lidding, to Abbot Stithberht, in exchange for 30 hides at Wicham in Ciltinne; dated 767 (Sawyer, no. 106). Cotton MS Augus...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
945. Cotton MS Faustina B IX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina B IX
- Title:
- Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; Chronicles of Tynemouth Priory
- Scope & Content:
- A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-75, 76-244), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and probably bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-75) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and the 1st...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1174-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
946. Cotton MS Nero A X/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero A X/1
- Title:
- Works of Justus de Justis and theological excerpts
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Nero A X originally contained 4 items, which were bound together by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631) and separated into 2 volumes in 1964. The texts are often referred to as articles 1-6, following the numbering in Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptum Bibliothecae Cottonianae (Oxfo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1250-1475
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
947. Cotton MS Vespasian D X
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian D X
- Title:
- A collection of chronicles and historical material including Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum and Ralph Niger, Chronica
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: Chronicles and other historical material copied in the 13th to the 16th centuries, bound together in the early modern period from three formerly separate parts (see Tite: The Early Records (2003), p. 183). ff. 1-3: Flyleaves with lists of contents in an early modern hand; ff. 4-39:...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1200-1549
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
948. Cotton MS Vitellius B IV/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius B IV/1
- Title:
- Bull of Pope Leo X conferring on King Henry VIII of England the title Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith)
- Scope & Content:
- This parchment leaf originally formed Article 105 of Cotton MS Vitellius B IV, a volume of records and papers concerning England and Rome, dating between 1519 and 1522. It was damaged by fire in 1731 and the remaining fragments were removed and bound separately. Bull of Pope Leo X (1513–1521) ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 11 October 1521
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
949. Cotton MS Augustus II 20
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 20
- Title:
- Record of an agreement made at Kingston, Surrey, between Archbishop Ceolnoth of Canterbury (d. 870), and Kings Ecgberht (d. 839) and Æthelwulf (d. 858)
- Scope & Content:
- Record of an agreement made at Kingston, Surrey, between Archbishop Ceolnoth of Canterbury, and Kings Ecgberht and Æthelwulf, concerning the recovery by Christ Church, Canterbury, of land at Mallingum (East Malling, Kent or South Malling, Sussex); dated 838 (Sawyer, no. 1438). With an additiona...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 9th century-2nd half of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
950. Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
- Title:
- Two Tropers (including the 'Caligula Troper'); a Proser; Homilies from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints; Life of St Mildred
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains: ff. 1r-36v: An illustrated, imperfect troper (a musical collection known as the Cotton Troper or the Caligula Troper) made in the mid-11th century. ff. 37r-92v: A Troper and a Proser, possibly made at Worcester in the late 12th century. ff. 93r-130r: Ælfr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century - 4th quarter of 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
