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471. Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII

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Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII
Title:
Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory the Great; history of the kings of Britain and England attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three items which were bound together in the early modern period. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: an early modern table of contents and a list; ff. 2r-58v: Old English homilies, a coronation oath, Ælfric's translation of the Pater Noster, and an Old English transl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-14th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

472. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII

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Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII
Title:
Prudentius, Psychomachia; Pseudo-Columbanus, Precepta Vivendi (imperfect); Collection of canon law, including Collectio Dacheriana; canons of the council of Trosly, 909; Pseudo-Isidore of Seville, Epistula ad Leudefredum Episcopum; Pseudo-Isidore of Seville, Collectio Canonum; Quadripartitus; Gregory the Great, Libellus Responsionum; Gregory the Great, Registrum; Augustine of Hippo, De Coniugiis Adulterinis, book ii; and Fulbert of Chartres, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two main parts, joined in the early modern period. Contents: ff. 4r-37v: an illustrated copy of Prudentius's Psychomachia with titles for the illustrations and glosses in Old English, copied in the late 10th or early 11th century. ff. 38r-171r: a collection...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century - 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

473. Cotton MS Cleopatra D I

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Cotton MS Cleopatra D I
Title:
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini; Epitaph of Vitalis; Vegetius, De Re Militari; Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-82r: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura (Concerning Architecture). f. 82v: Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini (Abridgments from the Sentences of St Augustine); Epitaph of Vitalis. ff. 83r-128v: Vegetius, De Re Militari (Concern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

474. Cotton MS Domitian A I

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Cotton MS Domitian A I
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Computistical tables; a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Bede, De die iudicii; a Latin colophon of three hexameters, a recipe in Old English and a list of books; Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of...
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains: ff. 2r-55v: Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Comp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century- mid-16th century
Extent:

1 volume

475. Cotton MS Domitian A II

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Cotton MS Domitian A II
Title:
John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli; an untitled Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut; a summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7r: John Somer, Chronicle titled ‘Cronica quedam brevis ffratris Iohannis Somour ordinis sancti Ffrancisci de conventu ville Briggewalter’. f. 7v: computistical tables. ff. 8r-21v: Battle Chronicle known as the 'Short Chronicle', beginning: 'Quoniam de situ et institutione lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

476. Cotton MS Domitian A IX

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Cotton MS Domitian A IX
Title:
Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect); Runic alphabet; extracts from the Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; runic alphabet; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Heahfridum; Verses on the calendar and other computistical notes; Revelatio beate Hildegardis; (?)John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales, with commentary by John Ergome; Verse account of those who...
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript composed of fragments bound together in the early modern period. These include: f. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; f. 2r: blank, apart from the inscriptions 'Mitte nob. hist. bede de gestis anglor[um]' (in a 12th-century hand) and 'Bind this... and put 4 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 8th century-16th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

477. Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII
Title:
Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate; Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text; Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD 1153–1179 (imperfect); Quadripartitus (imperfect); Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii), Coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect); List of Welsh cantrefi, Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Angl...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1*: an early modern list of contents; between f. 1* and f. 2r there are two blank folios; ff. 2r-15v: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu, letter of Pope Paschal II, Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate, followed by two blank ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, English., and Welsh
Date Range:
4th quarter 11th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

478. Cotton MS Domitian A XII

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Cotton MS Domitian A XII
Title:
Chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6; Cronica de Kirkstall; Ivo of Chartres, Sermo de Dedicatione Ecclesie; Sermo de Sacramentis Neophitorum
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts that were produced in different places and periods of time. The first part (ff. 3-54) contains a chronicle from Brutus to AD 1335/6. The second part (ff. 57-140) contains another chronicle from Brutus to 1430, with the added title Cronica de Kirksta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

479. Cotton MS Faustina A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A IX
Title:
Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes. f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...' ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Æl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

480. Cotton MS Faustina A V

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Cotton MS Faustina A V
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints; Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae; Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo; sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains five parts that were written in England during the 12th and 14th centuries (ff. 3-12; 13-24; 25-98; 99-102; 103-106). The larger part of the manuscript (ff. 25r-97r), copied in the first quarter of the 12th century, contains the De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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