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32. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 1-112
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 1-112
- Title:
- Lanfranc of Canterbury, Epistolae; Epitaph for Lanfranc; A recipe for making red and blue dye; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae (imperfect at the end)
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r-39v: Lanfranc of Canterbury (b. 1005 , d. 1089), Epistolae (Letters). f. 40r: Epitaph for Lanfranc, beginning: ‘hic tumulus claudit’. f. 40v: A recipe for making red and blue dye. ff. 41r-112v: Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033, d. 1109), Epistolae (imperfect at the end). Decoration: Nu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
- A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII
33. Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161
- Title:
- Marianus Scottus, Chronicon, with a continuation to AD 1087; computistical tables and texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-161r: Marianus Scottus (b. 1028, d. 1082/3), Chronicon (Chronicle) with a continuation to 1087 AD including computistical tables (ff. 160v-161r). [ff. 4r, 159v are blank] Decoration: Several large initials in red; numerous small initials in red, sometimes with simple ornamen...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Nero C V
34. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 80–84
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 80–84
- Title:
- Annals of Thorney Abbey and an Easter-table 961–1421
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains some pages of the annals or notes of important events of the Benedictine abbey St Mary the Virgin and St Botolph of Thorney. Entries were placed next to the years in a chart used for calculation of the date of Easter. These five leaves were originally bound together with...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century-Mid 16th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII
35. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
- Title:
- Horologium; mass prayer
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III
36. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
- Title:
- Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III
37. Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 2r-42v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 2r-42v
- Title:
- De temporibus, Heptametron de primordio mundi, Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum, De duodecim signis
- Scope & Content:
- Content: This part was originally bound together with Harley MS 3667. Both are two fragments from a larger manuscript. This part was probably written between 1120-1135 at Peterborough (see Ker, 'Membra Disiecta' (1938)). Contents: f. 2r: Tables for determining the movable feasts. f. 2v: Exc...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
- Part of Cotton MS Tiberius C I
38. Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
- Title:
- Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
39. Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
- Title:
- Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including rules of confraternity
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XXVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XXVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). Contents: f. 1r-v: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r-v: Directions for devotions added in...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd decade of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
40. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
- Title:
- Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
- Scope & Content:
- Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd decade of the 11th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
