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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XVIII
Title:: New Testament Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l23; Scrivener apost. 2, imperfect)
Scope & Content:: f. 2r: Extracts from liturgical prayers with commemorations of patriarchs and abbots with no names with a later, 13th-century hand. f. 2v: List of liturgical canticles (prokimena) ff. 3r-230v: New Testament Lectionary (Apostol) Decoration: Illuminated initials and decorated headpieces.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XXI
Title:: Roger Waltham, Compendium morale de uirtuosis dictis et factis exemplaribus antiquorum (2r–235v), with an index (236r–251r)
Scope & Content:: Dated: last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century; 1462 (236r–251r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XXII
Title:: Notes on blood-letting (1v–3r); kalendar (4r–9v); Admiralty ordinances (10r–42r); treatise on procedure (42v–63v); documents relating to the admiralty of Thomas Beaufort, Admiral of England, Ireland, Aquitaine and Picardy (1412–1426) (64r–90r); maritime documents (91r–99r)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Middle English (1v–3r, 35r–v); Latin (4r–9v, 40v–63v, 91r, 92v); French (10r–40r, 93r–99r); Latin and French (64r–90r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: between 1413-1426
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XXIII
Title:: John de Hauteville, Architrenius (2r–52r: Walther 20057); Ps.-Ovid, De vetula (53r–77v: Walther 12886); Proba, Cento (Centones Virgiliani) (77v–83v: Schaller 7487, Walther 9696); Alan of Lille, De planctu Nature (84r–110v: Walther 8957); Alexander Nequam, Nouus Æsopus (110v–118v: Walther 9348); Simon Chèvre d’Or of Saint-Victor, Excidium Troianum (118v–122v: Walther 11856); Symphosius, Epigrammatica tristicha aenigmatica (123r–126r: Schaller 5984, Walther 7578)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV
Title:: Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium; Priscian, De Situ Orbis; Pseudo-Dares, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Pseudo-Jerome, De Mobilitate Mentis Humanae; Prophetia Sybillae; Pseudo-Ausonius, Sententiae Septem Sapientum; (?) Segardus junior of St Omer, De Miseria Hominis; Roger of Caen, De Contemptu Mundi (excerpt); Hildebert of Lavardin, De Mysterio Missae (excerpts); De Tribus Mortibus; Pseudo-Nennius, Historia Brittonum; Pseudo-Bede, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; De Septem Miraculis ...
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript of historical, theological and prophetic texts was owned and possibly produced at the Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury (Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 36). The exemplar of this manuscript was a manuscript, extant in two pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian C I
Title:: Correspondence concerning England and Spain, 1511-1520
Scope & Content:: Papers concerning England and Spain between 1511 and 1520. Correspondents include Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland, Thomas Wolsey (1470/71–1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal, Ferdinand II (1452-1516), King of Aragon, and Charles V (1500-1558), Holy Roman E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1511-1520
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian C II
Title:: Correspondence (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain, April 1522–October 1524
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–382r: Correspondence (originals and transcripts) concerning England and Spain, April 1522–October 1524, principally of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547) and Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530), some in the hand of Charles V, king of Spain (1516–1556) and Holy Roman emperor (1519–1556; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1522-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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