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1181. Cotton MS Vespasian B XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XII
Title:
Verse prologue (3r–4r: Boffey no. 202); William Twiti, The Art of Hunting (5r–9r); Edward, 2nd duke of York (d. 1415), The Master of Game (10r–106r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1182. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vespasian B XIII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

1183. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
Title:
Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1184. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIX
Title:
Gervase of Canterbury, Tractatus de combustione et reparatione Cantuariensis ecclesie (1r–10r); Gervase of Canterbury, Imaginatio contra monachos Cantuariensis ecclesie (10r–11r); Gervase of Canterbury, Imaginatio contra Baldewinum archiepiscopum (11r–13v); Gervase of Canterbury, Persecutio cause contra Baldewinum archiepiscopum (13v–17r); Gervase of Canterbury, Replicatio operum Baldewini archiepiscopi (17r–24r); Gervase of Canterbury, Imaginatio contra Rogerum abbatem sancti Augustini (24v–...
Scope & Content:
Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century; middle of the 13th century to 1st quarter of the 17th century (232v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1185. Cotton MS Vespasian B XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XV
Title:
Excerpts from English records, transcribed primarily by John Joscelyn (d. 1603), including: records in the Tower of London (3r–v); notes on the coronation of King Richard II of England (1377–1399) ‘ex libro Garterii Rege armorum’ (4r–v); register of Eynsham Abbey (6r–18v); Evesham Chronicle (19r–22r); register of Westminster Abbey (23r–25v); ‘ex veteri libro ciuitatis Londoniensis’ (26r–27r); registers of the bishops of London (28r–40r); register of St Paul’s Cathedral, London (42v–43r); regi...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; Old English (7r–8r); English (78r, 79r, 85v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1186. Cotton MS Vespasian B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XVI
Title:
Old Testament history (1r: Boffey 3973, from the South English Legendary); On the death of William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, 1450 (1v–2r: Boffey 1555); Against the Lollards (2v–3v: Boffey 1926); Factum est in vigilia matutina (3v); Reconciliation of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) with the Yorkists, 1458 (4r–v: Boffey 3929); proclamation ‘To alle you I sende gretynge’, 1416 (5r); note on mensuration (5v); William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman, version C (6r–95r: Boffey ...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Middle English; Latin (3v, 95v) Dated: last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century; 2nd half of the 15th century (1r–5v, 95v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1187. Cotton MS Vespasian B XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XVII
Title:
History of 11–13 Henry VIII (22 April 1519–21 April 1522)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1188. Cotton MS Vespasian B XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XVIII
Title:
New Testament Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l23; Scrivener apost. 2, imperfect)
Scope & Content:
f. 2r: Extracts from liturgical prayers with commemorations of patriarchs and abbots with no names with a later, 13th-century hand. f. 2v: List of liturgical canticles (prokimena) ff. 3r-230v: New Testament Lectionary (Apostol) Decoration: Illuminated initials and decorated headpieces.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

1189. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1190. Cotton MS Vespasian B XXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XXI
Title:
Roger Waltham, Compendium morale de uirtuosis dictis et factis exemplaribus antiquorum (2r–235v), with an index (236r–251r)
Scope & Content:
Dated: last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century; 1462 (236r–251r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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