Contents: Half of a leaf from a psalter, used as a lower flyleaf in Cotton Claudius B V (when it was rebound in the post-medieval period), numbered f. 137. The remainder was used as an upper flyleaf, numbered f. 1. The two parts have now been re-joined and bound with other leaves from the same...
Acts of the Council of Constantinople, with an added miniature of the Annunciation to Zacharias
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4-134: Acts of the Council of Constantinople (680), dated to the 2nd quarter of the 9th century; f. 134v: A miniature from a Gospel-book or Gospel lectionary, dated to the 4th quarter of the 8th century or 1st quarter of the 9th century, pasted in beneath the text on f. 134v. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd quarter of the 9th century
This folio contains Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23) (imperfect). It was formerly folded in two and formed part of the binding of Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX.
This folio contains Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.25, imperfect). It was formerly folded in two and formed part of the binding of Cotton MS Cleopatra A III.
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; De formis qualiter causarum
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This manuscript contains a series of grammatical treatises and a poem. It includes: ff. 2r–31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v–47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon (Schaller and Köngsen, Initia (1977), no. 5725); ff. 48r–53r: De formis q...
ff. 1r-23r: De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum, excerpted from Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum. Decoration: Large initials in red.
ff. 24r-31v: Vita sancti Edmundi archiepiscopi Cantuarensis, 'Beatus eadmundus cantuariensis archiepiscopus' (imperfect); the text contains parts from a vita that is attributed to Eustace of Faversham (fl. c. 1250), prior of the Benedictine priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Martin in Dover, in...
ff. 33r-167r: Canonization dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham: a vita followed by letters of the bishops of Norwich, Winchester and elsewhere relating to lay brethren of the order of Sempringham, the Ordo of Gilbert's canonization, an account of his translation, letters concerning his canonizatio...
ff. 173r-178r: Verses on the life of Henry V, followed by prayers for his commemoration, 'Intencio auctoris edita ad laudem dei . et commendacionem Regis Henrici Quinti'. Decoration: Small initials in blue.