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1. Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 1-180, 187-188

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 1-180, 187-188
Title:
‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1 (imperfect) and volume 2 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain part of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/1, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts covering the liturgical year. Part of the first volume is co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

2. Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 181-184

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 181-184
Title:
‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral (184v)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a fragment of a Worcester cartulary, copied in the second half of the 11th century. Another leaf and a few strips of this cartulary is now Add MS 46204. The leaf from Add MS 46204 would originally have been placed between ff. 182 and 183, while the strips coming from an earl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

3. Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 185-186

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 185-186
Title:
Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain office lections in Latin (f. 185r) and excerpts from the law-code IV Edgar (ff. 185v–186v), copied in the late 10th or early 11th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 10th-early 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

4. Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 189-222

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero E I/2, ff 189-222
Title:
Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain part of a legendary copied in the late 12th or early 13th century, covering saints whose feast days are in May, July, and August. Its contents include: f. 189r–v: Passio sanctorum Petri, Andree, Pauli et Dionisie martyrum (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6716). ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
late 12th-early 13th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Nero E I/2

5. Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, f 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, f 74
Title:
Fragment of Gospel-book containing documents relating to Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This folio contains documents relating to Ely Abbey, including a land grant at Potton, Bedfordshire and regulations of the thegns' guild at Cambridge ('þegna gilde on grantabrycge'), added in blank spaces of an 8th-century Gospel-book. The Gospel-book was probably copied in the 8th century, while...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
8th century-4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1

6. Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, f 75

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, f 75
Title:
Leaf of a Gospel-book in Latin, containing Old English manumissions
Scope & Content:
Two manumissions and a notice of a guild assembly at Exeter added in blank spaces of a leaf from a Northumbrian Gospel-book with the end of St Matthew's Gospel.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
8th century-1st half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1

7. Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, f 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, f 76
Title:
Leaf of a Gospel-book in Latin containing a record in Old English
Scope & Content:
The last leaf of a Northumbrian gospel-book, with a record of the 'geburas' (roughly translated as inhabitants or serfs) at Hatfield, Hertfordshire added in the late 10th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
8th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1

8. Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, ff 2-73, 77-88

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, ff 2-73, 77-88
Title:
Collection of computistical, geographical, historical and astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a collection of texts, possibly copied at Canterbury in the mid-11th century, with later additions. Apart from the added Vita metrica sancti Nicholai and notes on Battle Abbey, the manuscript is believed to have been copied mostly by one scribe in the 2nd quarter of the 11th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter 11th century-3rd quarter 12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1

9. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 1r-113v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 1r-113v
Title:
Historia tripartita
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius. Decoration: Initials in red and blue with penwork decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1

10. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114r-156v

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114r-156v
Title:
Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Usuard's Martyrologium (ff 114r–155r), organized by the calendar year, and confraternity notes of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (ff 155r–156v), copied in the very late 11th or early 12th century. Obits and other notes have been added to the end of some entries between the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 11th century-1st quarter 12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1

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