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1. Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 3–117
Title:
Jerome, De viris illustribus and Vita Sancti Pauli; extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (i.21–27, 37); extract from Cyprian, Ad Quirinum Testimonia, book iii; computistical texts; and Easter tables
Scope & Content:
This collection of patristic writings appears to have been originally written in the second half of the 8th century at a monastery in the north of what is now France, at a centre with insular links. Some capitula and computus material were added in the first half of the 9th century, especially o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 8th century-1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153
Title:
A collection of computistical texts and tables (imperfect), charms, prognostics, Easter-table annals for Christ Church, Canterbury, and extracts from Ælfric's De temporibus anni
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a variety of computistical and prognostic material and charms, as well as an image depicting God and an angel giving a scroll to St Pachomius. It also contains annals next to its Easter table, which link the manuscript's production to Christ Church, Canterbury. Originall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

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