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1. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI
Title:
Historia Brittonum; Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This is composite manuscript including three distinct parts, plus an early modern table of contents (f. 1*): ff. 1r-17v: Historia Brittonum; ff. 18r-40v: Old English translation of Felix, Vita S Guthlaci; ff. 41r-71v: Sedulius' Paschale carmen, Hymnus i, and Hymnus ii and an excerpt from Pru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 9th century-1st half 12th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 1–17

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 1–17
Title:
Historia Brittonum (Harleian recension)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the 'Harleian recension' of Historia Brittonum, copied at Rochester in first half of the 12th century. The remainder of this text is now Royal 15 A XXII. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

3. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 18–40

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 18–40
Title:
Old English translation of Felix, Vita sancti Guthlaci
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a prose Old English translation of Felix's Vita S Guthlaci, copied in the third quarter of the 11th century. In the 12th century, an alphabet and the first words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin were added to f. 40v. This text was originally copied together with works attribut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

4. Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71

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Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI, ff 41–71
Title:
Sedulius, Paschale carmen; Sedulius, Hymnus i; Sedulius, Hymnus ii; Prudentius, Psychomachia (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various hymns and poems, all copied in what is now France or Germany in the first half of the 9th century: ff. 41r–68v: Sedulius, Paschale carmen (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 11692); ff. 68v–70v: Sedulius, Hymnus i (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 19...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XXI

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