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1. Cotton MS Nero E I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/1
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the first part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts cov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Nero E I/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/2
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral; Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains part of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, the oldest substantial legendary from England, along with parts of a cartulary, office lections and part of a law code which were inserted into the lectionary much later. It contains: ff. 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Otho C I/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C I/1
Title:
Gospel-book; bull of Pope Sergius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect Gospel-book, written in Old English (the so-called 'West Saxon' version of the Gospels). It was copied in the 1st half of the 11th century. In the mid-11th century, an Old English translation of a bull of Pope Sergius which benefitted Malmesbury Abbey was ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Otho C I/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C I/2
Title:
Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi; Old English translations of three Lives from Vitas patrum; letter of Boniface to Eadburga; a homily; three homilies of Ælfric (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex includes various theological and hagiographical material, along with a letter and some homilies, all in Old English or translated into Old English: ff. 1r–61v: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi, including a metrical preface, introductory lines, Books 1-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
Title:
Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
Title:
Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

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