The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
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This manuscript is the third volume of Cotton MS Julius E IV. The other volumes are Cotton MS Julius E IV/1 and Cotton MS Julius E IV/2. This volume contains the only surviving copy of a Middle English illustrated biography of Richard Beauchamp (b. 1382, d. 1439), 13th Earl of Warwick during the...
Historical and topographical collections, 1529-1640
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Collection of historical letters and papers, principally from the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI and I. From the collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Partly assembled by Cotton and William Camden (1551–1623), historian an...
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.
Anglo-Saxon law-codes I Cnut; II Cnut; II-III Edgar; law codes of Alfred and Ine; Romscot; Judex
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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...
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
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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...
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), Comput (Anglo Norman) [added Latin title ‘lib[er] de creaturis’, in a 15th-century script]. ff. 40v-41r: Two short Latin texts on the Computus (beginning ‘In anno quo ciclus’ and ‘Quicumque adventum domini celebrare desiderat’). ff. 41r...
Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
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Contents: ff. 83r-118v: Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis. This part of the manuscript contains a later addition: f. 118v: A list of readings for liturgical feasts (‘oblaciones’) with folio numbers, added in a 13th-century script. Decoration: Medium and smal...
Lanfranc of Canterbury, Epistolae; Epitaph for Lanfranc; A recipe for making red and blue dye; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae (imperfect at the end)
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ff. 1r-39v: Lanfranc of Canterbury (b. 1005 , d. 1089), Epistolae (Letters). f. 40r: Epitaph for Lanfranc, beginning: ‘hic tumulus claudit’. f. 40v: A recipe for making red and blue dye. ff. 41r-112v: Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033, d. 1109), Epistolae (imperfect at the end). Decoration: Nu...