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2481. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

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Cotton MS Vespasian D VI
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis ; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note on the ages of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (a paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis; hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others; Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes two parts. The first part contains a selection of biblical texts, hymns, and other notes, copied in the 10th century in the southern England (possibly at Canterbury). The second part contains Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi, copied in England in the 11th century. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-10th century - late 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

2482. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 2–77

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Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 2–77
Title:
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note of the age of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (Old English paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis (incomplete); hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various Biblical texts, notes, and hymns in Latin and Old English. Apart from the additions on ff. 76v–77v, most of this text may have been copied between the middle of the 10th century to 2nd half of the 10th century. These folios include: ff. 2r–37v: Book of Proverbs (Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

2483. Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125

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Cotton MS Vespasian D VI, ff 78–125
Title:
Stephen, Vita Sancti Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain perhaps the earliest surviving copy of Stephen's Vita S Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8889). The only other surviving manuscript copy is Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell vol. III 34a-56b. The text is imperfect, with several leaves missing between folio 87v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D VI

2484. Cotton MS Vespasian D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VII
Title:
Psalter in verse (Boffey 3103)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2485. Cotton MS Vespasian D VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D VIII
Title:
The N-town Plays
Scope & Content:
A cycle of plays known variously as the N-town plays, the Ludus Coventriae, or the Hegge plays. There are 41 plays in this cycle (labelled up to 42 by the scribe but play 17 is missing). This manuscript represents one of four surviving English Mystery play cycles. ff. 1r-9v: The Proclamation. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Paper codex

2486. Cotton MS Vespasian D X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D X
Title:
A collection of chronicles and historical material including Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum and Ralph Niger, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chronicles and other historical material copied in the 13th to the 16th centuries, bound together in the early modern period from three formerly separate parts (see Tite: The Early Records (2003), p. 183). ff. 1-3: Flyleaves with lists of contents in an early modern hand; ff. 4-39:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-1549
Extent:

A parchment codex

2487. Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 4–39

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Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 4–39
Title:
Ralph Niger, Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Ralph Niger, Chronicle to 1161, with a continuation to 1178
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

2488. Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 40–45

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Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 40–45
Title:
Annalistic chronicle, a note on Emperor Justinian, a list of the kings of Wessex and England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 40r-44r: Annalistic chronicle, 1114–1158. A note in the upper margin of f. 40r in an early-modern hand states, 'Additiones monachi de Cogishale', but this chronicle is believed to have been compiled by the Augustinian cannons of St Osyth's, Essex as a continuation of the precedin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

2489. Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 46–131

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 46–131
Title:
Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum
Scope & Content:
Contents: Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum, from 1066 to 1224; this is the earliest surviving copy of the text, believed to be a working copy as it is written in various hands, one of which was probably Ralph's; there are numerous additions in the margins and on inserted slips of parc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-Mid 16th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

2490. Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 132–137

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D X, ff 132–137
Title:
Cartulary of the Honour of Leicester
Scope & Content:
Contents: Cartulary of the Honour (Feudal Barony) of Leicester
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

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