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201. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166
Title:
Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

202. Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII

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Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
Title:
A liturgical calendar with computus tables; a Sacramentary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r: A prayer beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne Dominus', followed by an added prayer written by a contemporary hand, beginning: 'Deus qui salutis eterne Beate Marie'. f. 2v: A lunar calendar for calculating the moveable feasts. ff. 3r-8v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

203. 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

204. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10

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Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10
Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a fragment of the Compendium in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitier (b. c. 1130, d. 1205), ending with a diagram of Jesus, his apostles, Paul and Barnabas. These folios were copied in the late 12th or early 13th century. Chapter titles pertaining to Macer's De viribus her...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

205. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85

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Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85
Title:
Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

206. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138
Title:
Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 86-138: Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i-ii. Decoration: Initials in red throughout. Display capitals in red (f. 86r). Marginal drawing of heads (ff. 93v, 100v, 106v, 123v). Manicula (ff. 105v, 116v, 122v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

207. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 139-141

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Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 139-141
Title:
Medical recipes copied by William Harvey
Scope & Content:
These folios contain medical notes and recipes copied by William Harvey (b. 1578, d. 1657), the physician who discovered the circulation of blood. Contents: ff. 139-141: Medical notes and recipes, copied by William Harvey. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

208. 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

209. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 4–21

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Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 4–21
Title:
Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; an incomplete copy of Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121.
Scope & Content:
These texts, copied in the last quarter of the 12th century at Rievaulx Abbey, originally formed one manuscript with the folios now contained in Royal MS 6 C VIII. The texts contained in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII include: f. 4r: the last words of the closing rubric of Orosius, Historia Advers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

210. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25
Title:
Lines on Egyptian days; a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus; rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter; a note on epacts and concurrents
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English texts on calculating days and times, a fragment of a 'Winchester computus' (see Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, p. 36): f. 22r: A text on prayers and liturgy to be said in the morning, beginning 'þonne þu on morgen...' (edited in Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

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