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272. Cotton MS Vitellius C III
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C III
- Title:
- (1) Old English Illustrated Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus in Old English; (2) Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi; (3) Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii; (4) notes by William Harvey
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains four separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf. f. 4r: early modern table of contents. ff. 5r-10v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi, copied in England in the 1st qua...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
273. Cotton MS Vitellius C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C V
- Title:
- Old English Homilies, including the first series of Ælfric, Catholic Homilies
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies copied in last quarter of the 10th century or 1st quarter of the 11th century. In the 1st half of the 11th century, further sermons, including sermons from the second series and other homilies in the style of Ælfric, were in...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st half of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
274. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII
- Title:
- Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano (incomplete); a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121 (Chronica de Anglia); Lines on Egyptian days, a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus, notes on Septuagesima, Lent, Easter, epacts and concurrents; the letters of Adam Marsh; Paul, Epistulae, with glosses derived from Pelagius; Domesday abbreviation for Kent; Boncompagnus da Signa, Boncompagnus, Bernard of Meung, Ars Dictaminis; a theological treatise on vices and v...
- Scope & Content:
- Royal MS 6 C VIII originally formed part of the same manuscript from Rievaulx as the folios now in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 4r-21v. The remainder of the 8th-century, Northumbrian manuscript in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 85r-90v is now Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 10. 5. Other leave...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 8th century-16th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
275. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/1
- Title:
- Historia tripartita; Usuard, Martyrologium; conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains an early 14th-century copy of the Historia tripartita compiled by Epiphanius and a copy of Usuard's Martyrologium and the conuentiones of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, copied in the late 11th or early 12th century, with 12th- and 13th-century additions.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 11th century- 1st quarter 14th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
276. Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2
- Title:
- Letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester; Quadrilogus II; De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee; Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
- This codex contains: f. 157: a letter of Pope Innocent III addressed to the bishops of Ely, London and Worcester, copied in the 1st quarter of the 13th century; ff 158-228: a vita of Thomas Becket known as Quadrilogus II (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 8194), copied in the 1st half of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
277. Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
- Title:
- Psalter with gloss in Old English
- Scope & Content:
- This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
278. Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
- Title:
- Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
279. Cotton Roll XIV 8
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Roll XIV 8
- Title:
- Year-long menu for Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
- A year-long lunch and dinner menu for Princess Mary Tudor (later Mary I), daughter of Henry VIII, beginning with the dishes for Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Twelfth Night, and then listing the menu for each day of the week and for fish days. The menu is divided into six columns. The first...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1531
- Extent:
- 1 roll
