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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIII, ff 42–93
Title:: Jerome, De uiris illustribus (42r–68v); Gennadius of Marseilles, De uiris illustribus (68v–86r); Isidore of Seville, De uiris illustribus (86r–93r); Pope Hormisdas, De scripturis diuinis (Decretum Gelasanium de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis) (93r–v: imperfect)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIII, ff 94–147
Title:: Ps.-Turpin, Historia Karoli magni (94r–114v: BHL 1588–97); notes on baptism and related subjects (116r–119r); notes on St Michael and the hierarchy of angels (119r–123r); De sancto Pelagio, et historia Gothorum, Romanorum, et diuersorum imperatorum, regum et pontificum, from Legenda aurea (123r–130v); Historia Apolloni regis Tyri (132r–147v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV
Title:: Calendar, Latin-Old Cornish Glossary, 'Vita Sanctorum Wallensium'; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto, and an Altercatio inter Urbanum et Clementem; Letter-book of Archbishop Wulfstan
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript, containing texts made between the early 11th and late 12th century. These include: ff. 1-105: a calendar, Latin-Old Cornish glossary, documents pertaining to Wales, and lives of Welsh saints ('Vita Sanctorum Wallensium'), which was copied in the 2nd half of 12th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cornish, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of 11th century-2nd half 12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV, ff 1–105
Title:: Calendar; Latin-Old Cornish glossary; De situ Brecheniauc; Vita sancti Gundleii regis; Vita et passio sancti Cadoci; Vita sancti Iltuti abbatis; Geoffrey (alias Stephen) of Llandaff, Vita sancti Teliaui episcopi; De primo statu Landauensis ecclesie; Vita sancti Dubritii archiepiscopi; Rhygyfarch ap Sulien, Vita sancti Davidis episcopi; Genealogia and mass for St David; Benedict of Gloucester, Vita sancti Dubritii archiepiscopi; Vita sancti Bernaci; Vita sancti Paterni episcopi; Vita sancti Cl...
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a calendar, a Latin-Old Cornish Glossary, and series of hagiographical materials related to Welsh and Western British saints, in Latin. These include: ff. 1r–6v: calendar; ff. 7r–10r: Latin-Old Cornish glossary; ff. 10v–11v: De situ Brecheniauc; f. 12r: blank; f. 12...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cornish and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV, ff 106–113
Title:: Excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto; Altercatio inter Urbanum et Clementem
Scope & Content:: These folios, copied in England in the mid-12th century, include: ff.106r–109r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, i.25–27, 29; ff. 109r–110v: Gilbert Crispin, De spiritu sancto; ff. 111r–113v: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, i.25–27, 29, v.12–14, 16–17; f. 113v: A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: Part Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV, ff 114–179
Title:: Letter-book of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York
Scope & Content:: The collection compromises a selection of letters of Alcuin (d. 804), abbot of St Martin, Tours and royal advisor, of Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of Canterbury, and others, and various ecclesiastical decrees and documents from England. There are minor corrections made ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Part Cotton MS Vespasian A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX
Title:: Leaves from a Book of Hours, the Libellus Æthelwoldi, documents relating to Ely, excerpts from the Liber Eliensis, fragments of Ely annals, Goliardic Poems, Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together, including: ff. 1, 28, 103: leaves from a Book of Hours, made in France c. 1415-1420; ff. 2-27: the Libellus Æthelwoldi (copied at Ely in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century); ff. 29-51: excerpts from the Liber Eliensis, copied in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c.1125-1450
Extent:: Parchment codex, composite, containing 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, f 1
Title:: Leaf of a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: f. 1v: Procession to Calvary miniature, attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1415-1420
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A. xix.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XIX, f 28
Title:: Leaf of a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: f. 28r: A crucifixion miniature, attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1415-1420
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian A. xix.

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