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31. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

32. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

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Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

33. Cotton MS Tiberius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C III
Title:
Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Leaf of a noted liturgical book (imperfect) ff. 4r-91r: Honorius of Autun (b. c. 1080, d. c. 1155), Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis (Gem of the Soul or on Divine Services), an allegorical treatise on the liturgy, beginning: 'Incipit liber de divinis officiis venerabi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

34. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII

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Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

35. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

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Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

36. 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

37. Cotton MS Vespasian D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D II
Title:
Penitential and similar texts including excerpts from Gennadius of Marseilles, Liber Ecclesiasticorum Dogmatum, and Bernard of Clairvaux, Parabolae; Canones Penitentiales Secundum Ieronimum; Fulbert of Chartres, De Peccatis Capitalibus; anonymous penitential texts; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Ortu et Tempore Antichristi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa Ante Iudicium; a collection of sermons for liturgical feasts, including sermons by St Wulfstan, St Augustine of Hippo, St John Chrysostom, and ...
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of penitential texts, papal decrees, conciliar canons, liturgical and theological treatises, sermons, miracles and exempla. Although the manuscript has previously been dated to the 11th or 12th century, the identification of sermons by Geoffrey Babio (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

38. Cotton MS Vespasian D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XI
Title:
Lawrence of Durham, Consolatio de Morte Amici; Hypognosticon; Oratio pro Laurentio; Oratio pro Naufragis; Oratio pro Iuvenibus Compeditis (imperfect); Oratio pro Milone (imperfect); Maledictio
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains works by Lawrence of Durham (b. c. 1110, d. 1154), poet, hagiographer, and prior of Durham Cathedral Priory. The manuscript primarily contains the Hypognosticon (‘Abbreviation’), a poem that recounts the biblical history of mankind from its creation until pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

39. Davis80

Reference (shelfmark):
Davis80
Title:
Glossed Book of Ezekiel
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Book of Ezekiel with Gloss. The manuscript, according to Julian Harrison (unpublished note, see 'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings ( «http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings» [accessed 02 March 2018]) was written by a French scribe in France or England...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

40. Davis386

Reference (shelfmark):
Davis386
Title:
The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with Glosses
Scope & Content:
The manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century contains the Gospels of Matthew and Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It features a Parisian Romanesque binding by the so-called ‘Starry Griffin’ binder, and historiated initials by the so-called ‘Almagest’ workshop, named after a c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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