This manuscript now forms two volumes. Cotton Otho C I/1 contains an Old English Gospel-book copied in the 11th century. Cotton Otho C I/2 contains an Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogues and three lives from the Vitas Patrum, along with sermons and a letter from Boni...
This manuscript contains an imperfect Gospel-book, written in Old English (the so-called 'West Saxon' version of the Gospels). It was copied in the 1st half of the 11th century. In the mid-11th century, an Old English translation of a bull of Pope Sergius which benefitted Malmesbury Abbey was ad...
Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi; Old English translations of three Lives from Vitas patrum; letter of Boniface to Eadburga; a homily; three homilies of Ælfric (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex includes various theological and hagiographical material, along with a letter and some homilies, all in Old English or translated into Old English: ff. 1r–61v: Old English translation of parts of Gregory the Great's Dialogi, including a metrical preface, introductory lines, Books 1-...
Records and papers concerning England and the Knights Hospitallers, 1510–1539
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, nuper restitutus, constans foliis 144. 1. The grand master of Rhodes (Emery d'Amboise) to Henry VIII; on Henry's accession; the Turks in Egypt, &c. (Orig. Lat.) Rhodes, Oct. 1, 1510? 1. 2. A father guardian in Palestine, to Fryar John de S. Martino; concerning ap...
Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (part of the 'The Otho-Corpus Gospels') (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex contains part of an Insular Gospel-book which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r–64v: The Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (imperfect). The Gospels of St Luke and St John are contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B and possibly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 8th century