1. Cotton MS Caligula A IX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A IX
- Title:
- Layamon’s Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, religious and historical texts in Middle-English and Anglo-Norman French
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-194v: Layamon’s Brut (Boffey, no. 295), the most complete surviving copy of this work, composed in alliterative verse by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire, at the beginning of the 13th century. A second copy, much abbreviated, is found in Cotton MS Otho C XII...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Extent:
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