Verse miscellany, including ‘Uos qui sub Christo mundo certatis in isto’ (f. 66r–v: Walther 20826); (?)Philippe de Thaon, De conflictu corporis et anime (ff. 72v–77r: Dean 692); theological miscellany (ff. 79v–81r): 1st quarter of the 13th century; Latin (ff. 66r–72r, 77r–81v); Anglo-Norman French (ff. 72v–77r); origin British Isles; owned by Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Verse miscellany, including De expulsione Ade et Eve de paradiso (ff. 82r–83r: Walther 2761), De inuentione sancte Crucis (ff. 83v–84r: Walther 3482), Versus de cruce Christi (ff. 84v–88v), and De mutatione mala ordinis Cistercii (ff. 88v–90r: Walther 4817): mid 14th century; Latin; origin British Isles; owned by (?)Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Moralium dogma philosophorum (Bloomfield 3095): mid 13th century; Latin; origin France; owned by (?)Nicholas Wilson, last quarter of the 16th century or 1st quarter of the 17th century; (?)Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba (ff. 125r–131r: BHL 5951); lessons on the feast of the apparition of St Michael (ff. 131v–133r); neums (f. 133v): Latin; 1489 (ff. 125r–131r); last quarter of the 15th century (ff. 131v–133r); origin England, made for John Taylor, chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (d. 1492); owned by St Michael’s Mount; Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617); Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Vita sancti Oswini regis; Inventio sancti Oswini regis; Miracula sancti Oswini regis
Scope & Content:
These folios contain hagiography related to Saint Oswine (the last independent ruler of the kingdom of Deira), possibly copied at Tynemouth Priory in the late 12th or early 13th century: ff. 2r-9r: Vita sancti Oswini regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 6382, imperfect). ff. 10r-14r:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
These folios contain one of the earliest non-fragmentary copies of the Old English Martyrology. The text begins and ends imperfectly, and there are gaps in the text between 25 January-24 February, 13 March-18 March, and 24 June-2 July. Leaves are missing after ff. 59, 65, and 113. This text was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, AD 1-249; Gerald of Wales, De principis instructione
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript composed of two parts (ff. 2-47, 48-173), both owned by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), poet and antiquary, and bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631). The first part (ff. 2-47) was made at Melrose Abbey in Scotland between c. 1174 and c. 1208 and cont...
Contents: ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in t...
This manuscript contains a map of Britain by the English artist and chronicler Matthew Paris (b. c. 1200, d. 1259). Originally drawn on a single folio, it was folded and cut into four leaves and became ff. 50r-53v of Cotton MS Julius D VII, the only surviving copy of the collectanea of John of W...