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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius F X, ff 1–2
Title:: Leaves from a theological compilation, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia ad Guillelmum abbatem (1r: imperfect), and William of Saint–Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei (1r–v: imperfect)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius F X, ff 4–197
Title:: Historical and topographical papers of William Camden (d. 1623), including epigrams and epitaphs of William Lily (d. 1522/3) (69r–73v), and a purported charter of Edward the Confessor, king of England (1042–66) (141r: Boffey 1295)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin, English and Welsh; Middle English (141r) Dated: 1st half of the 16th century to 1st quarter of the 17th century
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Julius F XI
Title:: Genealogical and historical collections, much of it published in William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke, concerning Britaine (London, 1605), including A Discourse towching the pretended Matche betwene the Duke of Norffolk and the Quene of Scottes (22r–41v), ‘Surnames’ (121r–135r), ‘Anagrammes’ (141r–142r), ‘The Excellency of the English tongue’ (265r–267v), engravings of Classical statues (ff. 280–289: printed papers), ‘Artilarye’ (303v–306v) and ‘Printinge’ (306v–307r)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin, English and French; Greek (319r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A I
Title:: Early modern index; Anglo-Saxon law codes I Cnut, II Cnut, II-III Edgar, the law codes of Alfred and of Ine (imperfect), Romscot, and Judex; completion of the law codes of Alfred and of Ine by John Joscelyn (d. 1603); Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; other additions, including an Easter table, the law codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund (imperfect), III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred; a law code beginning 'Godes grið', in the style of...
Scope & Content:: This codex contains Anglo-Saxon law codes and writings related to Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-v, 178r-180v: early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione Presbiterii'; ff. 3r-57v: Ang...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 11th-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 2r-v, 178r-180v
Title:: Early modern index (A–V)
Scope & Content:: These folios contain an early modern index, entitled 'De ordinatione presbiterii'. Folio 2 contains the entries under the letters A-E, while ff. 178-80 contain the entries E-V.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 3–57
Title:: Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a series of law codes associated with Anglo-Saxon kings or writers, including the earliest known copies of I and II Cnut. These texts include: ff. 3r-16r: I Cnut (3r–16r); ff. 16r-41r: II Cnut; ff. 42r-44v: II-III Edgar; ff. 45r-48r, 51r-57v: law codes of Alfred and Ine...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 58–69
Title:: Anglo-Saxon law codes of Alfred and Ine, in the hand of John Joscelyn (d. 1603)
Scope & Content:: This item completes the imperfect copy of the law-code of Alfred and Ine in ff. 3-57.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A I, ff 70–177
Title:: Wulfstan of York, Institutes of Polity; Wulfstan of York, Homilies, including Sermo lupi ad Anglos; various additions, including an Easter-table for 1100–1152, Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Æthelstan, I Edmund, III Edgar (imperfect), V Æthelred, law-code on Grið, VIII Æthelred, excerpts on the role of a bishop (imperfect), Excerptiones Ecgberti (1st recension), excerpts on canon law
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a series of legal texts copied in the early eleventh century in the circle of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. Wulfstan's own hand has been detected adding to and correcting texts, for example on f. 120r (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 164). Later 12th ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Nero A I

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Nero A II
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Psalter of St Jerome (fragment); Leaf from a Book of Hours, reused as a Cottonian frontispiece; Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers; Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de cursus; Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defen...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of five parts (f. 1; f. 2; ff. 3-13; ff. 14-45; ff. 46-108) that were produced separately between the 8th and 15th centuries and joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The manuscript contains a wide variety of theological,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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