Contents: ff. 112r-112v: The Book of Psalms, excerpt: Psalms 6-7, imperfect at the end. Decoration: 2 medium initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in the opposite colour; small initials in blue or red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
St Augustine of Hippo, De Doctrina Christiana (incomplete)
Scope & Content:
This part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI was part of the same medieval manuscript as Cotton MS Vespasian E IV, ff. 203-210 (see Watson, Savile (1969), pp. 48-49 (no. 158); Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 230). Contents: ff. 1r-4v: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), De Doctrina Christiana (O...
Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Celestianos; Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, De Processione Spiritus Sancti; Pope Paschal II, Epistolae; A record of the primacy of Canterbury, 1072; Acts of the Council of Rome, 1112
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Contents: ff. 5r-32r: Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Celestianos (Hypomnesticon Against the Pelagians and Celestinans). ff. 32r-56r: Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, De Processione Spiritus Sancti (On the Procession of the Holy Spirit), extracts. ff. 56v-57r, ...
Contents: ff. 61r-90r: 'Aethicus Ister' and Pseudo-Jerome (translator), Cosmographia, imperfect at the beginning and end: the text ends with Aethicus Ister’s alphabet. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 90v: Latin notes, added in the (?) 15th century. [f. 90v is blank]. Decorat...
Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput
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Contents: ff. 91r-91v: Computistical tables, the second one for the years 1133-1177. ff. 92r-97v: Calendar, adapted for the use of Canterbury. ff. 98r-108v: Computistical treatises. f. 109r: Genealogy of kings in Anglo-Norman, beginning ‘Hic est Istoria Francorum’ (Anglo-Norman). ff. 10...
Book of Genesis, excerpt; De Conceptione Beate Marie Virginis
Scope & Content:
This part was written by two scribes: the first scribe worked in the last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century (114r-120v); the second scribe worked in the 1st half of the 15th century (120v-122r). Contents: ff. 114r-120v: Excerpt from the Book of Genesis, excerpt (Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
William the Englishman, De urina non uisa (2r–5r: T/K 906); Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum (5r–8r: T/K 454); Ptolemy (Ps.-Aristotle), Iudicia ad Aristonem filium suum (8r–20v: T/K 1504, 1547, 289); Ps.-Aristotle, Commentum astronomia (20v–23v: T/K 145); Ps.-Aristotle, Expositio ad litteram superioris tractatus (23v–29r: T/K 1149); Ps.-Aristotle, treatise on astrology (29r–31v: T/K 356 etc); Astronomia secundum Iudeos et libros eorum (31v–45r: T/K 950); Abū Ma‘shar, Flores, translated by Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Al-Kindi, Iudicia, translated by Robert of Ketton (109r–162v: T/K 1162, 224); Abū ‘Ali, De iudiciis natiuitatum, translated by Plato of Tivoli (163r–196v: T/K 562)