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1291. Cotton MS Vitellius A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A VII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A VII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

1292. Cotton MS Vitellius A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A VIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A VIII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
6 items

1293. Cotton MS Vitellius A X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A X
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A X
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
6 items

1294. Cotton MS Vitellius A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XI
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A XI
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

1295. Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

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

1296. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vitellius A XIII
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript comprising: ff. 1-2: Early modern flyleaves with notes and contents list; (ff. 3-6: An illustrated chronicle of the kings of England is now bound separately with ff. I-V, 5 former fabric curtains, as Cotton Vitellius A XIII/1); ff. 7-19: Laws and Genealogy of the Kings ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1150-1450
Extent:

Parchment codex

1297. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII/1
Title:
Les roys de Engeltere
Scope & Content:
ff. i–v: Five rectangles of red linen, formerly used as curtains for the miniatures. ff. 3–6: Eight miniatures of the kings of England from Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) to Edward I (r. 1272–1307); each one except the last is accompanied by a short account of their reign in Anglo-Norman p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
4 parchment leaves and 5 rectangles of fabric in frames

1298. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XIV
Title:
Publius Faustus Andrelinus, Historia
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1299. Cotton MS Vitellius A XIX

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

1300. Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV
Title:
(1) Old English adaptations of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia and other texts (known as the 'Southwick Codex'); (2) Beowulf, The Marvels of the East, Judith, and other texts in Old English (known as the 'Nowell Codex')
Scope & Content:
This volume, containing the unique medieval copy of Beowulf and other important texts in Old English, comprises two manuscripts of different origin and date, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The so-called 'Southwick Codex' (ff. 4–93), named after its medieval home, was ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
990s-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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