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2391. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; fragment of a computistical table. Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; Notes by John Joscelyn; William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: ff. 1r-102r: Bede, De temporum ratione, copied in France (possibly in Saint Denis) in the 9th century.In the early 11th century the manuscript was in England, where interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and three glosses in Old English were added (ff. 33r, 39v). This m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
9th century -16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2392. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI/1
Title:
‘Metrical calendar of York’ (imperfect); Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; lists of Popes and apostles; Anglo-Saxon episcopal lists; Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies
Scope & Content:
These three bifolia were copied in the 9th century in Southern England, possibly in the kingdoms of Mercia or Kent. Their script shares similarities to the Book of Cerne (see Brown, Book of Cerne (1996), pp. 170-2). These bifolia were originally part of the volume Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, but t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century -16th century
Extent:

Single parchment folios mounted separately in frames.

2393. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, f 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, f 110
Title:
Notes by John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Scope & Content:
This folio contains notes made by John Joscelyn in the 2nd half of the 16th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B VI

2394. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 1–103

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 1–103
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; De horologio
Scope & Content:
These folios contain: ff. 1r-102r: Bede, De temporum ratione, copied in the 9th century. Interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and three glosses in Old English were added in the 11th century (ff. 33r, 39v). The table corresponding to the content of chapter XXII on the mathematical calculati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B VI

2395. Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VI, ff 111–182
Title:
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an imperfect copy of the Historia rerum Anglicarum of William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. c. 1198) Augustinian canon and historian. Although the last chapter is now missing, it is mentioned in the table of contents (f.111v). A quire is lacking as the catchword at the bottom o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B VI.

2396. Cotton MS Vespasian B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VII
Title:
List of the kings of Wessex and England (4r–v); statutes of England (4v–99v); Modus tenendi Parliamentum (100r–104v); tract on the steward of England (104v–105v); tract on the marshal of England (105v–107r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 14th century, with occasional additions to 1st half of the 16th century
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

2397. Cotton MS Vespasian B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B VIII
Title:
Statutes and Ordinances of the Hanseatic Steel-yard in London, 1554 (3r–88v); charters of Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) of England for German merchants (89r–91r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): German; Latin (89r–91r) Dated: c. 1554; 1st half of the 17th century (89r–91r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
c 1554-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2398. Cotton MS Vespasian B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X
Title:
Benedeit, 'Voyage of St Brendan'; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De quindecim signis diei judicii; Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo; Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister).
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three main parts (ff. 1-24; ff. 24-30; ff. 31-124), joined in the early modern period in the library of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). Among the manuscript's contents is the Cosmographia (Cosmography of Aethicus Ister), an 8th-century work that describ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2399. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

2400. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30
Title:
Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo, translated by Manfred of Sicily.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-27r: Robert Kilwardby, De Ortu Scientiarum (On the rise of the sciences), imperfect. ff. 27v-30r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo (On the death of Aristotle, or the apple), translated by Manfred of Sicily. f. 30v: table of contents in a modern hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

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