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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Faustina B III
Title:: List of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775); Regularis Concordia; Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth; Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite manuscript. It includes: ff. 1r-57v: documents pertaining to Peterborough Abbey, compiled in the early 15th century; ff. 158r–v: a list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); ff. 159r–198r: the Regularis Concordia; ff. 199r–26...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: mid-11th century-1st half 15th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 1–157
Title:: Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:: These folios (ff. i, 1-157) contain a cartulary of Peterborough abbey, written in Latin and Anglo-Norman French. It was apparently compiled for the sacrist George Fraunceys (fl. c. 1393-1407) at the beginning of the 15th century, with later additions (Briston and Halliday, Pilsgate (2009), p. xi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 158–198
Title:: A list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); the Regularis concordia (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain part of a mid-11th century copy of the Regularis Concordia (probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates). The Regularis Concordia was intended to help standardise monastic practice in Britain in the late 10th century. The rest of the ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff 199–280
Title:: Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth
Scope & Content:: These folios contain Middle English hagiographies and a Latin chronicle of Wilton abbey: ff. 199r–263r: a verse Life of St Edith (Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 243); ff. 263r–264v: a chronicle of Wilton Abbey; ff. 265r–279v: a Life of St Æthelthryth (Boffey and Edwards, A New...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Faustina B III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Faustina B IV, ff 3–179
Title:: William of St Albans, Passio sanctorum Albani et Amphibali (3r–21r: BHL 213); Miracula sancti Albani (21r–41v: BHL 217); Inuentio sancti Amphibali (41v–65r: BHL 395); John of Forde, Uita sancti Wulfrici (65r–123v: BHL 8744); Uita sancte Bege uirginis (124r–133r: BHL 1080); Miracula sancte Bege uirginis (133r–140v: BHL 1081); Faricius of Arezzo, Uita et translatio sancti Aldhelmi (141r–158r: BHL 256); Folcard (attributed), Uita sancti Iohannis Beuerlacensis (158r–166v: BHL 4339); William Ketel...
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 Faustina B IV, ff 183–190
Title:: Stephen of Tournai, letter to Robert, prior of Pontigny (183r–187v); Ps.-Eusebius of Vercelli, De Trinitate (187v–190r); Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Miscellanea, i.93 (De conscientia et fama) (190r–v); Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones de diuersis, §§c, cxix–cxx (190v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

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