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191. Cotton MS Faustina A X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A X
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar (imperfect); Ælfric, Glossary; proverbs and maxims; grammatical dialogue; Old English translation of the Rule of St Benedict; account known as 'King Edgar's Establishment of the Monasteries' (incomplete)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts written in the late 11th century on ff. 3r-101v, with many later annotations. Meanwhile, the second half of the manuscripts (ff. 102r-151v) contains 12th-century copies of Old English works which have been attributed to Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester (d. 984), or ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

192. Cotton MS Faustina B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina B III
Title:
List of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775); Regularis Concordia; Life of St Edith; Chronicle of Wilton Abbey; Life of St Æthelthryth; Cartulary of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite manuscript. It includes: ff. 1r-57v: documents pertaining to Peterborough Abbey, compiled in the early 15th century; ff. 158r–v: a list of Roman and Byzantine emperors to Constantine V (d. 775) (imperfect); ff. 159r–198r: the Regularis Concordia; ff. 199r–26...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
mid-11th century-1st half 15th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

193. Cotton MS Galba A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba A XIV
Title:
Prayer book, including computus tables and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents by Richard James (d. 1638). f. 1v: Blank f. 2r–v: Computus tables, ‘Incipit computatio Grecorum de mensibus anni … Omnes uero menses octo idus habent.’ ff. 3r–4v: Prayer to God the Father, ‘Domine deus omnipotens rex regum … in aduersariis meis domine deus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

194. Cotton MS Galba B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B VIII
Title:
Correspondence and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1514–1525
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other records concerning England and Burgundy, 1514–1525, including letters in the hands of Charles V, King of Spain (1516–1556) and Holy Roman emperor (1519–1556; d. 1558), and Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), lord chancellor, humanist and martyr. f. 1r: Cottonian title-page. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1514-1525
Extent:
1 volume

195. Cotton MS Galba E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV
Title:
Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris; a collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-186v) was produced at Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury in the 1st half of the 14th century. It contains the Register of Henry of Eastry, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (b. 1285, d. 1331). The second part (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1175-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex

196. Cotton MS Julius A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A II
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): ff. 2-9: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect), 1st quarter of the 12th century; ff. 10-135: Ælfric, Grammar (10r–120v: imperfect), Ælfric, Glossary (120v–130v); a grammatical treatise,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid-11th century to 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

197. Cotton MS Julius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VI
Title:
A calendar, computistical texts and tables, Expositio Hymnorum, canticles and poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two discrete parts, which were joined together in the medieval period. One part (ff. 2r–17v), copied in the first half of the 11th century, includes a calendar and computistical material. The second part (ff. 18r–80v) contains an early version of the Expositio Hymnorum (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

198. Cotton MS Julius A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A VII
Title:
Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum; verse miscellanies; Revelatio sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba, etc
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 9 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) ff. 3–54: Cronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum, to Pope Urban IV (1261–64) (ff. 3r–14r); Bonizo of Sutri, Cronica Romanorum pontificum (ff. 15r–30r); Cronica regum Mannie et insularum, AD 1000–...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter 13th century-2nd half 15th century
Extent:

i + 134 folios

199. Cotton MS Julius A X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius A X
Title:
Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes: f. 1: early modern table of contents. ff. 2-43: a Latin account of the life and miracles of St Oswine, possibly copied in Tyneside in the 12th or 13th century. There are two blank, unfoliated leaves between folio 43 and folio 44. ff. 44-175: an imperfect copy of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 10th century- early 13th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

200. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

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