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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV
Title:: A collection of hagiographical texts in two parts
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript made up of two separate volumes: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1, containing a collection of hagiographical texts and Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, which contains a continuation of the texts in Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1 and the De Abbatibus (About the Abbots) by Aethelwulf ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 975-1200
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
Title:: A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil). ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1125-1225
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2
Title:: A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is the second volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV and is made of two parts. The first part (ff. 1-157) continues the collection of hagiographical texts of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1. The second part (ff. 158-166) contains De Abbatibus (On the Abbots) by Æthelwulf (fl. 9th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157
Title:: A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Vita S. Marie Magdalene (Life of St Mary Magdalene), continued from Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1. ff. 1r-6v: Vita S. Audoeni (The Life of St Auduin). ff. 6v-9r: Gennadius of Marseilles (fl. late 5th century), Vita S. Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome). ff. 9r-10r: Pseudo-Sebasti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 158-166
Title:: Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 158r-166v: Æthelwulf (fl. 9th century), De Abbatibus (On the Abbots). f. 166r: ‘Hieronimus Dicit de Situ Babylonis’ (Jerome Says about the Location of Babylon), beginning: 'Babylonem fuisse potentissimam’. f. 166v: ‘Orosius Autem hoc Modo Refert de Eadem Ciuitate’ (Orosius Writ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton Tiberius D IV/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D IX
Title:: João de Castro, Roteiro do Mar Roxo
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius D V, part II, ff 1–93
Title:: Imago mundi (part II, 1r–78r); Adomnán, De locis sanctis (part II, 78v–93v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

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