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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII
Title:: Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano (incomplete); a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121 (Chronica de Anglia); Lines on Egyptian days, a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus, notes on Septuagesima, Lent, Easter, epacts and concurrents; the letters of Adam Marsh; Paul, Epistulae, with glosses derived from Pelagius; Domesday abbreviation for Kent; Boncompagnus da Signa, Boncompagnus, Bernard of Meung, Ars Dictaminis; a theological treatise on vices and v...
Scope & Content:: Royal MS 6 C VIII originally formed part of the same manuscript from Rievaulx as the folios now in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 4r-21v. The remainder of the 8th-century, Northumbrian manuscript in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 85r-90v is now Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 10. 5. Other leave...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century-16th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
Title:: Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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