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1421. Cotton MS Nero A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Psalter of St Jerome (fragment); Leaf from a Book of Hours, reused as a Cottonian frontispiece; Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers; Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de cursus; Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defen...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of five parts (f. 1; f. 2; ff. 3-13; ff. 14-45; ff. 46-108) that were produced separately between the 8th and 15th centuries and joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The manuscript contains a wide variety of theological,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1422. Cotton MS Nero A II, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, f 1
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Psalter of St Jerome (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originates from a Book of Hours that was most likely produced in Flanders in the 2nd half of the 15th century. It may have belonged to the same manuscript as f. 2. This leaf was reused as a flyleaf for Cotton MS Nero A II in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

1423. Cotton MS Nero A II, f 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, f 2
Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, reused as a Cottonian frontispiece
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originates from a Book of Hours that was most likely produced in Flanders in the 2nd half of the 15th century. It may have belonged to the same manuscript as f. 1. The leaf was reused as a frontispiece for Cotton MS Nero A II in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

1424. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 3–13

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 3–13
Title:
Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, with the so-called Dog Days (dies canicularis). f. 9r: A computistical table. f. 9v: Instructions for the computus, beginning: ‘Si vis scire quot concurrentes in anno sunt’. f. 10r: Instructions for calculating the age of the moon, beginning: ‘Hec sunt .vii.tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

1425. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 14–45

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 14–45
Title:
Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam Homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de Cursus; Fortunatianus, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 14r-27r: An anonymous sermon on the Works of Mercy, beginning ‘Isaias propheta dicit ille vobis qui jungitis agrum ad agrum’; excerpt from a sermon ('Venus, A Man') against the observance of pagan customs (see Levison, England and the Continent (1946), pp. 303-04 (as ‘C’)); partly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

1426. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 46–108

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 46–108
Title:
Bede the Venerable, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (excerpt); Translatio et Miracula Sancti Cuthberti (imperfect); Excerpta de Vita et Miraculis Sancti Cuthberti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 46r-47r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672/3, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), Book 4.32 [healing miracle of St Cuthbert]. ff. 47r-85v: Translatio et Miracula Sancti Cuthberti (Translation and Miracles of St Cuthbert), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

1427. Cotton MS Nero A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A III
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Nero A III
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
5 items

1428. Cotton MS Nero A III, f i

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A III, f i
Title:
Leaf of a Bible (imperfect)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1429. Cotton MS Nero A III, f iii

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A III, f iii
Title:
Leaf of a Bible (imperfect)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1430. Cotton MS Nero A III, ff 2–89

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A III, ff 2–89
Title:
Aelred of Rievaulx, De institutionis inclusarum (2r–43v); Antony the Hermit, Uita sancti Symeonis monachi (43v–53r: BHL 7957); Uita sancte Marine uirginis (53v–56v: BHL 5528); Ps.-Jerome, Liber adhortationum sanctorum patrum (56v–74v); Patrick of Dublin, De tribus habitaculis anime (75r–83r); Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio (83r–85v); De diz comandemenz en la lei (85v–88r); De dusze articles de la fei (88r–89v); De set sacremenz (89v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (85v–89v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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