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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A V
Title:: Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Bestiarius; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is composed of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-82v), dating to the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains two Anglo-Norman works by Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman poet. The first work is his Comput (Computus)−the oldest extant scientific tex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century-Mid 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A VII
Title:: Lanfranc, Epistolae; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; Bretha Nemed toísech
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made out of three parts of different origins, written at different times. The first part (ff. 1-112) was produced in England, probably at Rochester, or Normandy in the last quarter of the 11th century and contains the Epistolae (Letters) of Lanfranc (b. 1005 , d. 108...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1075-c 1571
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero C V
Title:: Marianus Scottus, Chronicon; computistical tables and texts; Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory X addressed to the bishops of London and Ely
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. 162r-285v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (English History). ff. 282r-283r: a bull of Pope Gregory X (1272-1276) a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century - 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero C VII
Title:: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect); An Easter-table including Annals of Thorney Abbey; Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough; an annalistic chronicle; Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali. ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from Christ Church, Canterbury, imperfect. ff. 80r-84v: An Easter-table including the annals of Thorney Abbey. ff. 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-16th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D IV
Title:: Gospel-book (‘Lindisfarne Gospels’)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-5v: St Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus ('Novum opus'). ff. 5v-8r: St Jerome, prologue to the Gospels ('Plures fuisse'). ff. 8r-9r: Eusebius, letter to Carpianus. ff. 10r–17v: Canon tables. ff. 18v-19r: Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew. ff. 19r-23v: Chapter lists t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero D VII
Title:: The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey (‘the Golden Book of St Albans’)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the names and portraits of benefactors to the Abbey of St Albans with details of their gifts. The preface states that the register was established as part of the grant of confraternity set up by Abbot Thomas and was to be kept on the Abbey's high altar (f. 2r-v). The m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1380-c 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero E I/1
Title:: ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’, volume 1, part 1
Scope & Content:: These folios contain the first part of the first volume of the earliest surviving, substantial legendary from England. Together with Cotton Nero E I/2, ff. 1-165, 166-80, 187-188 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 9, pp. 61-458, these folios originally formed two volumes with 150 texts cov...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero E I/2
Title:: ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 1, part 2 ; ‘Cotton-Corpus Legendary’, volume 2 (imperfect); ‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’, including a list of the estates of Worcester Cathedral; Office lections; law-code IV Edgar (excerpt); another Legendary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains part of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary, the oldest substantial legendary from England, along with parts of a cartulary, office lections and part of a law code which were inserted into the lectionary much later. It contains: ff. 1-180, 187-188: part of the first volume of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A VI
Title:: Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
Title:: Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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