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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 79–86
Title:: Cummian, Epistola de Controversia Paschali; Bede, Epistola ad Pleguinam de Aetatibus Saeculi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 79r-83r: Cummian, Epistola de Controversia Paschali (Letter on the Easter Controversy). ff. 83r-86v: Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), Epistola ad Pleguinam de Aetatibus Saeculi (Letter to Plegwin about the Ages of the World). Decoration: Medium and small initials in black...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 87–107
Title:: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii; computistical tables; untitled computistical treatise with hand diagrams
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 87r-97v: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii (1175), with an introduction on f. 87r, beginning: ‘Sepe [auctorum] volumina qui de compoto vel principaliter’; the treatise on ff. 87r-97v, beginning: 'Compotus est scientia commensurandi tempora mediis motibus solis et lunae'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 109–135
Title:: Serlo of Bayeux, poems; Godfrey of Winchester, Liber Proverbiorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae; miscellany of poems by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbod of Rennes, Ausonius, and Godfrey of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 109r-114r: Serlo of Bayeux (d. 1104), canon of the cathedral chapter of Bayeux, collection of short poems [including: Versus Serlonis Parisiacensis ad Muriel Sanctimonialem Virginem [Muriel, sister of Odo (d. 1097), Bishop of Bayeux]; Ad Virginem Deo Dicatam Versus; Incipiunt Vers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185
Title:: Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; Exemplum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential, with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r. f. 184v: The Lord’s Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader ure be giert on heofena’. f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a bishop with the ab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, f. 101
Title:: Cartulary of Chertsey Abbey (fragment)
Scope & Content:: One folio from the Cartulary of Chertsey Abbey containing two charters, written in a cursive hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: One folio, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, ff. 7-19
Title:: Laws and Genealogy of the Kings of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 7r–18r: Laws of Kings Edward the Confessor (1042–1066) and William I (1066–1087) of England. ff. 18r–19r: Genealogy from Rollo, duke of Normandy (911–927), to Stephen, king of England (1135–1154). Decoration: Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, ff 20–82
Title:: Cartulary of Chertsey Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 20r–49r: Foundation, royal, papal, and other grants to Chertsey abbey to 1260, with marginal additions in a 15th-century hand; ff. 50r–69r: Parts of further royal charters, including writs and charters of Edward the Confessor; ff. 69v–77r: Papal diplomas; ff. 79r–82r: Grants a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century - 15th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII, ff 83–90
Title:: Chronicle of Abingdon Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 83r–87v: Chronicle of Abingdon Abbey; ff. 87v–90v: Miscellaneous historical and liturgical texts. Decoration: Initials in green or red with pen-flourishing in red and green. Small initials in red or green. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

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