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032-001101582 Subject Hagiography Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

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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

2. Cotton MS Julius D III

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Cotton MS Julius D III
Title:
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius B II

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Cotton MS Claudius B II
Title:
Alan of Tewkesbury, Collectio Epistolarum Sancti Thome Cantuariensis; John of Salisbury, Life of St Thomas Becket with Alan of Tewkesbury's prologue
Scope & Content:
Alan of Tewkesbury (d. 1202) compiled a collection of St Thomas Becket's letters from earlier collections than John of Salisbury's collection. This manuscript is the earliest extant version of Alan of Tewkesbury’s collection. It contains a number of emendations, additions and corrections indicat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1

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Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
Title:
A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil). ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1125-1225
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Vespasian D II

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Cotton MS Vespasian D II
Title:
Penitential and similar texts including excerpts from Gennadius of Marseilles, Liber Ecclesiasticorum Dogmatum, and Bernard of Clairvaux, Parabolae; Canones Penitentiales Secundum Ieronimum; Fulbert of Chartres, De Peccatis Capitalibus; anonymous penitential texts; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Ortu et Tempore Antichristi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa Ante Iudicium; a collection of sermons for liturgical feasts, including sermons by St Wulfstan, St Augustine of Hippo, St John Chrysostom, and ...
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of penitential texts, papal decrees, conciliar canons, liturgical and theological treatises, sermons, miracles and exempla. Although the manuscript has previously been dated to the 11th or 12th century, the identification of sermons by Geoffrey Babio (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 113r-128r

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Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 113r-128r
Title:
Vita Afrae Metrice
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 113r-128r: Vita Afrae Metrice, usually attributed to 'Master Rufus'. Decoration: A decorated initial (f. 113r). Initials in red, blue and green.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Titus D XVI

7. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 10–28

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Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 10–28
Title:
Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis (Life of St Augustine of Canterbury), beginning: 'Anno siquidem millesimo quingentesimo lxxxxo sexto, sanctus episcopus Gregorius'. Decoration: One large initial 'A' for 'anno' at the beginning, in red and blue with penwork decoratio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

8. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 109–116

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Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 109–116
Title:
Cyprian of Antioch, Confessio
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 109r-116v: Cyprian of Antioch (fl. 300), Confessio (Confession), beginning: ‘Quicumque in Christi misterus proficius meis intendite lacrimis’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red and brown. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

9. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 165-212

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Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 165-212
Title:
Jocelin of Furness, Vita sancti Kentigerni
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the earlier of two surviving copies of Jocelin of Furness's Vita sancti Kentigerni (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 4646. It was copied in the late 12th-century. Contents: ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

10. Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118

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Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118
Title:
Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-118v: Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis. This part of the manuscript contains a later addition: f. 118v: A list of readings for liturgical feasts (‘oblaciones’) with folio numbers, added in a 13th-century script. Decoration: Medium and smal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A V

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