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1181. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1
Title:
‘Metrical calendar of York’ (imperfect); Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; lists of Popes and apostles; Anglo-Saxon episcopal lists; Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
Scope & Content:
These three bifolia were copied in the 9th century in Southern England, possibly in the kingdoms of Mercia or Kent. Their script shares similarities to the Book of Cerne (see Brown, Book of Cerne (1996), pp. 170-2). These bifolia were originally part of the volume Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, but t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century -16th century
Extent:

Single parchment folios mounted separately in frames.

1182. Cotton MS Vespasian B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VII
Title:
List of the kings of Wessex and England (4r–v); statutes of England (4v–99v); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (100r–104v); tract on the steward of England (104v–105v); tract on the marshal of England (105v–107r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 14th century, with occasional additions to 1st half of the 16th century
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1183. Cotton MS Vespasian B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VIII
Title:
Statutes and Ordinances of the Hanseatic Steel-yard in London, 1554 (3r–88v); charters of Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) of England for German merchants (89r–91r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): German; Latin (89r–91r) Dated: c. 1554; 1st half of the 17th century (89r–91r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
c 1554-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1184. Cotton MS Vespasian B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X
Title:
Benedeit, 'Voyage of St Brendan'; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De quindecim signis diei judicii; Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo; Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister).
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three main parts (ff. 1-24; ff. 24-30; ff. 31-124), joined in the early modern period in the library of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). Among the manuscript's contents is the Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister), an 8th-century work that describ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1185. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI
Title:
The Hagnaby Chronicle; The pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, Marguerite de Baux and Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol; The Dover Chronicle; Vita Abbatum Croylandiae; a fragment of a rental; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris, De Genealogia Regum Anglorum; a Franciscan chronicle; a verse chronicle; a theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-61v: The Hagnaby Chronicle. ff. 62r-71v: The pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b.1390, d. 1433), Marguerite de Baux (b. 1394, d. 1469), and Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol (b. 1418, d. 1475). ff. 72r-79r: The Dover Chronicle. ff. 80r-82v: Vitae Ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1186. Cotton MS Vespasian B XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XII
Title:
Verse prologue (3r–4r: Boffey no. 202); William Twiti, The Art of Hunting (5r–9r); Edward, 2nd duke of York (d. 1415), The Master of Game (10r–106r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1187. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vespasian B XIII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

1188. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
Title:
Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1189. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIX
Title:
Gervase of Canterbury, Tractatus de combustione et reparatione Cantuariensis ecclesie (1r–10r); Gervase of Canterbury, Imaginatio contra monachos Cantuariensis ecclesie (10r–11r); Gervase of Canterbury, Imaginatio contra Baldewinum archiepiscopum (11r–13v); Gervase of Canterbury, Persecutio cause contra Baldewinum archiepiscopum (13v–17r); Gervase of Canterbury, Replicatio operum Baldewini archiepiscopi (17r–24r); Gervase of Canterbury, Imaginatio contra Rogerum abbatem sancti Augustini (24v–...
Scope & Content:
Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century; middle of the 13th century to 1st quarter of the 17th century (232v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1190. Cotton MS Vespasian B XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XV
Title:
Excerpts from English records, transcribed primarily by John Joscelyn (d. 1603), including: records in the Tower of London (3r–v); notes on the coronation of King Richard II of England (1377–1399) ‘ex libro Garterii Rege armorum’ (4r–v); register of Eynsham Abbey (6r–18v); Evesham Chronicle (19r–22r); register of Westminster Abbey (23r–25v); ‘ex veteri libro ciuitatis Londoniensis’ (26r–27r); registers of the bishops of London (28r–40r); register of St Paul’s Cathedral, London (42v–43r); regi...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Old English (7r–8r); English (78r, 79r, 85v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

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