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1201. Cotton MS Domitian A XII

Reference (shelfmark):
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

1202. Cotton MS Augustus II 79

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 79
Title:
Grant of Ealdorman Oswulf and his wife Beornthryth to Christ Church, Canterbury; confirmation of Archbishop Wulfred (d. 832)
Scope & Content:
Ealdorman Oswulf and his wife Beornthryth grant 20 sulungs at Stanhamstede, Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury; c.798 × 810. Confirmation of Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury, establishing an annual food-rent from the estate; 805 × 832 (Sawyer, no. 1188). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘Þis i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

1203. Cotton MS Nero A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Psalter of St Jerome (fragment); Leaf from a Book of Hours, reused as a Cottonian frontispiece; Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers; Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de cursus; Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defen...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of five parts (f. 1; f. 2; ff. 3-13; ff. 14-45; ff. 46-108) that were produced separately between the 8th and 15th centuries and joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The manuscript contains a wide variety of theological,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1204. Cotton MS Augustus II 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Augustus II 78
Title:
Record of a dispute between Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury (d. 832), King Coenwulf of the Mercians (d. 821), and Abbess Cwenthryth (fl. 811–c.827)
Scope & Content:
Record of a dispute between Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury, King Coenwulf of the Mercians, and Abbess Cwenthryth, concerning the minsters of Reculver and Minster-in-Thanet, and of the dispute’s settlement by the transfer to Wulfred of a hundred hides (manentes) at Harrow, Herefrething lond, We...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
? 827
Extent:

Parchment leaf

1205. Cotton MS Julius B II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius B II
Title:
Chronicle of the city of London, AD 1189–1434/5 (3r–88v, 101r); John Lydgate, On the entry of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) in London, 1432 (89r–100v: Boffey 3799)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Middle English (3r–88v, 101r); Middle English (89r–100v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1206. Cotton MS Claudius C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius C IX
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum; Notarial copy of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), issued at Hereford Cathedral; Charters of Kings Edward I (r. 1272–1307) and Henry III (r. 1216–72) of England for the Abingdon Abbey; Award of Norham, addressed to the abbot and convent of Battle; Liber terrarum of Abingdon Abbey and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately in England during the 12th and 13th centuries. The first part (ff. 4-17), written in the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains the Chronicle of the theologian Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). The second p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1207. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
Title:
Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey to 1263 (imperfect); Cartulary of Tewkesbury Abbey; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Collatio Compoti Romani et Arabici; Herman of Reichenau, Computus Abbreviates; computistical argumenta
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and 2nd half of the 13th centuries. Two parts were certainly written at and for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin at Tewkesbury, as these contain the annals a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1208. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
Title:
A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a fragment of a Gospel of St John and a charter of Duke William II of Normandy; Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect); Richard Rolle, Super apocalypsim, Richard Rolle, Super mulierem fortem, Officium de sancto Ricardo heremita and Vita et miracula sancti Ricardi heremite
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four originally separate items, now bound together. Contents: ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and letters by various authors in the late 10th century, copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 11th century. f. 174r: A fragment of the Gospel of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1209. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1
Title:
‘Metrical calendar of York’ (imperfect); Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; lists of Popes and apostles; Anglo-Saxon episcopal lists; Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
Scope & Content:
These three bifolia were copied in the 9th century in Southern England, possibly in the kingdoms of Mercia or Kent. Their script shares similarities to the Book of Cerne (see Brown, Book of Cerne (1996), pp. 170-2). These bifolia were originally part of the volume Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, but t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century -16th century
Extent:

Single parchment folios mounted separately in frames.

1210. Cotton MS Galba C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba C I
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564. f. 2 Queen Elizabeth I: minutes of her instructions to Thomas Gresham: to travel to Antwerp, and liquidate some debts. December 1558 and March 5, 1558-9. f. 3 Queen Elizabeth I: her commission to William Howard, Earl of E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1564
Extent:
1 volume

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