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1. Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV
Title:
Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium; Priscian, De Situ Orbis; Pseudo-Dares, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Pseudo-Jerome, De Mobilitate Mentis Humanae; Prophetia Sybillae; Pseudo-Ausonius, Sententiae Septem Sapientum; (?) Segardus junior of St Omer, De Miseria Hominis; Roger of Caen, De Contemptu Mundi (excerpt); Hildebert of Lavardin, De Mysterio Missae (excerpts); De Tribus Mortibus; Pseudo-Nennius, Historia Brittonum; Pseudo-Bede, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; De Septem Miraculis ...
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript of historical, theological and prophetic texts was owned and possibly produced at the Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury (Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 36). The exemplar of this manuscript was a manuscript, extant in two pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 3859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3859
Title:
Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Welsh
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex