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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 171–178
Title:: Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 171r-178v: Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem (The Barons’ Insult against King John), beginning: ‘Mater cum omnibus'. Decoration: Numerous small large initials in red and blue, some with pen-flourishing. Numerous large initials in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 179–213
Title:: Reginald of Canterbury, Vita S. Malchi; Carmina
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 179r-213v: Reginald of Canterbury (d. c. 1112), Vita Sancti Malchi (Life of St Malchus), preceded by a prologue (f. 179r) and followed by Carmina (Poems), beginning: ‘Prelia gesturus’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, green and blue. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, f 3
Title:: Computistical memoranda
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 3r: Computistical memoranda. [f. 3v is blank]. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 4–77
Title:: Ecgberht of York, Dialogus Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae; Hrabanus Maurus, De Computo; Eight computistical poems; De Septem Miraculis Mundi; De Duobus Verticibus Mundi; De Diebus Aegyptiacis; Ordo Librorum Catholicorum in Circulo Anni Legendorum; De Vocibus Litterarum; Greek and Hebrew alphabets with interpretations; Untitled computistical tract; De Sex Aetatibus Hominis; Isidore of Seville (Pseudo-Gildas), De Natura Rerum; T-O world map; Abbo...
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4v-8r: Ecgberht of York (d. 766), Dialogus Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis (Dialogue of Ecclesiastical Institutions). ff. 8r-10v: Abbo of Fleury (b. c. 945, d. 1004), abbot of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae (On the Difference between the Circle and the Sphere). ff. 10v-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 79–86
Title:: Cummian, Epistola de Controversia Paschali; Bede, Epistola ad Pleguinam de Aetatibus Saeculi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 79r-83r: Cummian, Epistola de Controversia Paschali (Letter on the Easter Controversy). ff. 83r-86v: Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), Epistola ad Pleguinam de Aetatibus Saeculi (Letter to Plegwin about the Ages of the World). Decoration: Medium and small initials in black...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 87–107
Title:: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii; computistical tables; untitled computistical treatise with hand diagrams
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 87r-97v: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii (1175), with an introduction on f. 87r, beginning: ‘Sepe [auctorum] volumina qui de compoto vel principaliter’; the treatise on ff. 87r-97v, beginning: 'Compotus est scientia commensurandi tempora mediis motibus solis et lunae'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 109–135
Title:: Serlo of Bayeux, poems; Godfrey of Winchester, Liber Proverbiorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae; miscellany of poems by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbod of Rennes, Ausonius, and Godfrey of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 109r-114r: Serlo of Bayeux (d. 1104), canon of the cathedral chapter of Bayeux, collection of short poems [including: Versus Serlonis Parisiacensis ad Muriel Sanctimonialem Virginem [Muriel, sister of Odo (d. 1097), Bishop of Bayeux]; Ad Virginem Deo Dicatam Versus; Incipiunt Vers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185
Title:: Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; Exemplum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential, with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r. f. 184v: The Lord’s Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader ure be giert on heofena’. f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a bishop with the ab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 1-16
Title:: Chronicle of Chichester Cathedral, AD 1-1178; List of bishops
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16r: A chronicle of Chichester from the birth of St John the Baptist to 1164, with additions from the 1170s and 1220; largely based on the works of the Benedictine monks and historians Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735) and William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1090, d. in or after 1142), and the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1150
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166
Title:: Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

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