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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XX
Title:: Fragments of Ovid's Metamorphoses on medieval endleaves; Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Scope & Content:: Fragments of Ovid's Metamorphoses on medieval endleaves; Penitential manual; Confessional prayer; charm against toothache.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: mid-10th century-late 12th century
Extent:: A Parchment codex, 95 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI
Title:: Historia Brittonum; Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: This is composite manuscript including three distinct parts, plus an early modern table of contents (f. 1*): ff. 1r-17v: Historia Brittonum; ff. 18r-40v: Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; ff. 41r-71v: Sedulius' Paschale carmen, Hymnus i, and Hymnus ii and an excerpt from Pru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half 9th century-1st half 12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III
Title:: Annals of Burton Abbey; an account of the Council of Oxford of 1222; St Cyprian, Confessio; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Pseudo-Methodius, De Initio et Fine Saeculi; Alexander of Stainsby, Constitutiones; Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago Mundi; Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem; Reginald of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Malchi
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made out of six parts that were produced separately in England. The first part (ff. 4-102) was produced at Burton Abbey in the early 13th century and contains the Annals of Burton Abbey. The second part (ff. 103-108) is an account of the Council of Oxford of 1222. Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A VI
Title:: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This codex contains one of the earliest surviving copies of the fifth or sixth century churchman Gildas's account of De excidio Britanniae, copied in the mid-10th century. (A fragment, possibly copied in the late 9th or early 10th century, survives in Bibliothèque Carnegie de Reims, MS 414.) This...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII
Title:: Computistical memoranda; Ecgberht of York, Dialogus Ecclesiasticæ Institutionis; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae; Hrabanus Maurus, De Computo; Eight computistical poems; De Septem Miraculis Mundi; De Duobus Verticibus Mundi; De Diebus Aegyptiacis; Ordo Librorum Catholicorum in Circulo Anni Legendorum; De Vocibus Litterarum; Greek and Hebrew alphabets with interpretations; Untitled computistical tract; De Sex Aetatibus Hominis; Isidore of Seville (Pseudo-Gildas), De Natura R...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscripts contains six parts (f. 3; ff. 4-77; ff. 79-86; ff. 87-107; ff. 109-135 and ff. 136-185) that were produced between the late 11th and late 12th centuries. The six parts perhaps may all have been written in England and were probably joined together in the library of Sir ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX
Title:: Bede, Vita sancti Cuthberti; Latin poems entitled 'De quattuor clavibus sapientiae'; excerpts from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; extract from Juvencus, Evangeliorum libri; note on 'De sacro baptismate'; hymn for St Martin and 'Alleluia' verses with musical notation; Bede, Vita metrica sancti Cuthberti
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a series of Latin texts relating to St Cuthbert, including both Bede's prose and verse vitae of Cuthbert and excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica pertaining to Cuthbert. There are Old English glosses, apparently in the same hand as the main text, added to Bede's p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII
Title:: Chronicle of Chichester Cathedral; List of bishops; Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains two parts that were produced at separate locations in England and at separate moments during the 12th century. The first part (ff. 1r-17v) contains the Annals of Chichester and was produced at the Cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester. The second part (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
Title:: A liturgical calendar with computus tables; a Sacramentary
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r: A prayer beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne Dominus', followed by an added prayer written by a contemporary hand, beginning: 'Deus qui salutis eterne Beate Marie'. f. 2v: A lunar calendar for calculating the moveable feasts. ff. 3r-8v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C III
Title:: (1) Old English Illustrated Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus in Old English; (2) Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi; (3) Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii; (4) notes by William Harvey
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains four separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf. f. 4r: early modern table of contents. ff. 5r-10v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi, copied in England in the 1st qua...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C V
Title:: Old English Homilies, including the first series of Ælfric, Catholic Homilies
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies copied in last quarter of the 10th century or 1st quarter of the 11th century. In the 1st half of the 11th century, further sermons, including sermons from the second series and other homilies in the style of Ælfric, were in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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