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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII
Title:: Refoundation charter of the New Minster, Winchester
Scope & Content:: f. 2v: Frontispiece depicting King Edgar of England offering his charter to Christ. ff. 3v–33v: Charter of King Edgar refounding the New Minster, Winchester; dated 966 (Sawyer, no. 745). ff. 34r–37r: Charter of King Edgar for the New Minster, 966 (Sawyer, no. 746). ff. 37v–38v: Charter of Kin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 10th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A X
Title:: Alan of Lille, Anticlaudianus (2r–45r); Brutus, dedicated to Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (1153–95) (45v–52r: Walther 3231); summarium of Anticlaudianus (52v–53v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV
Title:: Calendar, Latin-Old Cornish Glossary, 'Vita Sanctorum Wallensium'; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto, and an Altercatio inter Urbanum et Clementem; Letter-book of Archbishop Wulfstan
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript, containing texts made between the early 11th and late 12th century. These include: ff. 1-105: a calendar, Latin-Old Cornish glossary, documents pertaining to Wales, and lives of Welsh saints ('Vita Sanctorum Wallensium'), which was copied in the 2nd half of 12th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cornish, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of 11th century-2nd half 12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX
Title:: Leaves from a Book of Hours, the Libellus Æthelwoldi, documents relating to Ely, excerpts from the Liber Eliensis, fragments of Ely annals, Goliardic Poems, Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including: ff. 1, 28, 103: leaves from a Book of Hours, made in France c. 1415-1420; ff. 2-27: the Libellus Æthelwoldi (copied at Ely in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century); ff. 29-51: excerpts from the Liber Eliensis, copied in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c.1125-1450
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
Title:: Anonymous compilation of canonical texts and decretals based on the Collectio Tripartita
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-130v: A compilation of canonical texts, false decretals and extracts from papal and episcopal correspondence; the compilation is made from the sources that are part of the canonical collection known as the Collectio Tripartita or Collectio Trium Partium (Tripartite Collection)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XVI
Title:: Kalendar (5r–10v); Paschal tables (11r–12r); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (13r–15r: excerpts); Nicholas Maniacutius, Ad incorrupta pontificum nomina conseruanda (15r–17r); lists of the bishops of Winchester and archbishops of Canterbury (17v–18r); letters of Pope Honorius III (1216–1227), Pope Gregory IX (1227–1241) and others (19r–21r); Waverley Chronicle, AD 1–1291 (24r–200v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (200r–v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 13th century; last quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century (17v–18r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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