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642. Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
- Title:
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
643. Cotton MS Titus D XVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus D XVI
- Title:
- Prudentius, Psychomachia; poem in praise of St Laurence; Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio Iudei cum Christiano; Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam; 'Master Rufus', Vita Sancte Afre metrice
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of four originally separate parts perhaps bound together between c. 1250 and c. 1300 (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey (1982), no.19). Contents: ff. 2r-34r: Prudentius, Psychomachia. ff. 34v-35r: A poem in praise of St Laurence. ff. 37r-69v: Gilbert Cris...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 12th century-13th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
644. Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
- Title:
- Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including rules of confraternity
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XXVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XXVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). Contents: f. 1r-v: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r-v: Directions for devotions added in...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd decade of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
645. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
646. Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV
- 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
647. Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX
- 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
648. Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
- 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
649. Cotton MS Vespasian B III
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B III
- Title:
- Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, a eulogistic French poem in honour of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France, followed by a prose description of her funeral in 1514. The work has been attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 1514
- Extent:
- 1 volume
650. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B VI
- Title:
- Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; fragment of a computistical table. Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; Notes by John Joscelyn; William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
- Scope & Content:
- This codex contains: ff. 1r-102r: Bede, De temporum ratione, copied in France (possibly in Saint Denis) in the 9th century.In the early 11th century the manuscript was in England, where interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and three glosses in Old English were added (ff. 33r, 39v). This m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 9th century -16th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
