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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 87–105
Title:: Pontifical (‘Claudius Pontifical II’, imperfect)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain an imperfect Pontifical, including a Litany and the second English coronation ordo. It was copied between the second and third quarters of the 11th century. These folios were part of the same Pontifical as ff. 9-18
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 106–136
Title:: Pontifical (‘Claudius Pontifical I’, imperfect)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain fragment of the Pontifical which may have been owned by Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. These folios and ff. 39r-86v formed part of the same Pontifical, which was originally bound with the poem, law codes, and Benedictional found on ff. 31v-38v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1000
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A III, ff 137–150
Title:: Benedictional
Scope & Content:: These folios include a relatively brief Benedictional which was made c. 1000. It originally supplemented the Pontifical found on ff. 106r-135v and 39r-86v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1000
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Claudius A III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A IV, f 192
Title:: Tract on the city of Jerusalem, and on the relics found at Constantinople
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A IV, ff 3–60
Title:: Treatise on the calendar beginning ‘Naturalis abacus ob integrorum ac minutiarum barbaras figuras’ (3r–23v); Gerland (Garlandus), De abaco (25r–35v: Thorndike 848, 923); De manuali kalendario (37r–52v: Thorndike 562, 106); computistical treatise beginning ‘(F)inito manuali abaco, restat nunc ut promisimus’ (53r–59r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A IV, ff 193–220
Title:: Letters of Popes Alexander III (1159–81), Lucius III (1181–85) and Urban III (1185–87) and others addressed primarily to the clergy of England, Scotland and Wales
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Claudius A V
Title:: Pseudo-John of Peterborough, Peterborough Chronicle, AD 654-868, 890-1368; William of Malmesbury Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Aldhelmi Episcopi; genealogy of King Henry II of England; Vita Sancti Erkenwaldi Episcopi; Vita Sancte Wenefrede Virginis; Miracula Sancte Wenefrede Virginis; Vita Sancti Neoti Abbatis; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Wulfstani Episcopi
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript of three parts. The first part, ff. 2r-45r, is a copy of the Peterborough Chronicle, copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century with a continuation added in the 17th century. The second part, ff. 46r-134r, includes William of Malmesbury's (b. c. 1080, d. 1143) Gest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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