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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII
Title:: Cotton Manuscript Vitellius C XII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is now bound in two volumes, Cotton Vitellius C XII/1 and Cotton Vitellius C XII/2 (previously Cotton MS Vitellius C XII part 1 and Cotton MS Vitellius C XII part 2). Cotton Vitellius C XII/1 includes: ff 1-113: the Historia tripartita, copied in the early 14th century; ff 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: End of 11th century to 14th century
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
Title:: Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1, ff 114–156
Title:: Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: These folios contain Usuard's Martyrologium (114r–155r), organized by the calendar year, and confraternity notes of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (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 12th ...
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 Vitellius C XII/1

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
Title:: Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, f 157
Title:: Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester
Scope & Content:: The recto of this folio contains a letter of Pope Innocent III (reigned 1198-1216) addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in England in the early 13th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 158-228
Title:: Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (Quadrilogus II)
Scope & Content:: These folios include an early copy of the second Quadrilogus, a composite life of Thomas Becket (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194). The text was composed by Brother 'E', a monk of Evesham who worked under the auspices of Henry de Longchamp, abbot of Crowland, according to the dedicator...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 229-235
Title:: De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee
Scope & Content:: These folios contain some material related to royal coronations that was copied in the 14th century, including: ff. 229r-230v: De indulgencia apud assisium; ff. 231r-v: Coronatio Edwardi secundi; ff. 232r-235v: La maniere comment le roy sera coronee.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 236-291
Title:: Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: These folios include three saints' lives, copied in the 14th century: ff. 236r-254v: Aelred of Rievaulx's vita of St Edward the Confessor (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2423); ff. 254v-280r: A vita of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury by Edward Grim (Bibliotheca Hagiographica La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

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