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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C I
Title:: Cicero, Aratea with scholia; Germano-Roman Pontifical
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two different parts of different origins, written in different times. The first part (ff. 2r-42v) was originally bound together with Harley MS 3667 from the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew, Peterborough, and was possibly written between 1120-1135...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 2r-42v
Title:: De temporibus, Heptametron de primordio mundi, Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum, De duodecim signis
Scope & Content:: Content: This part was originally bound together with Harley MS 3667. Both are two fragments from a larger manuscript. This part was probably written between 1120-1135 at Peterborough (see Ker, 'Membra Disiecta' (1938)). Contents: f. 2r: Tables for determining the movable feasts. f. 2v: Exc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Tiberius C I

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203
Title:: A Germano-Roman Pontifical
Scope & Content:: The main part of this Pontifical was written by two German scribes in the mid-11th century. Thirteenth English scribes have added materials on blank spaces and additional leaves in the second half of the 11th century according to Wilcox, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2000) and Morgan, The Production ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Tiberius C I

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C II
Title:: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a decorated copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735). Sometimes known as the 'Tiberius Bede', it was made in the south of England in late 8th or early 9th century. In the 9th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C III
Title:: Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Leaf of a noted liturgical book (imperfect) ff. 4r-91r: Honorius of Autun (b. c. 1080, d. c. 1155), Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis (Gem of the Soul or on Divine Services), an allegorical treatise on the liturgy, beginning: 'Incipit liber de divinis officiis venerabi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius C IV, ff 268–357
Title:: Dit sijn die wonderlijcke oorloghen vanden doorluchteghen hoochgheboren prince, keyser Maximiliaen (printed text)
Scope & Content:: Dated: (?)1531
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: ?1531
Extent:: 1 item

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