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71. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 99–102

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 99–102
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 99r-99v: Pseudo-Jerome [here attributed], De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii (On The Fifteen Signs before the Day of Judgement). ff. 99v-102r: Anonymous, Liber de Antichristo (Book of the Antichrist), beginning: ‘De antichristo scire volentibus primo dicemus quare sic vocatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

72. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 103–106

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 103–106
Title:
Sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 103r-106v: Anonymous, sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12; including a macaronic section on ff. 105v-106r concerning the Raising of Lazarus. Decoration: No decoration
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

73. Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186

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Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186
Title:
Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1331)). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 182v: verses on the death of Edward VI, king of England (r. 1553-1558) in a late 16th-century hand, followed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

74. Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244
Title:
A collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains a number of scientific and medical texts. Among them, there is the earliest surviving copy of the De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions) by Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC) and the only extant copy of the chapter entitled...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

75. Cotton MS Nero A II, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, f 1
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Psalter of St Jerome (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originates from a Book of Hours that was most likely produced in Flanders in the 2nd half of the 15th century. It may have belonged to the same manuscript as f. 2. This leaf was reused as a flyleaf for Cotton MS Nero A II in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

76. Cotton MS Nero A II, f 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, f 2
Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, reused as a Cottonian frontispiece
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originates from a Book of Hours that was most likely produced in Flanders in the 2nd half of the 15th century. It may have belonged to the same manuscript as f. 1. The leaf was reused as a frontispiece for Cotton MS Nero A II in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

77. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 3–13

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Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 3–13
Title:
Calendar; Computistical texts; Hymns and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, with the so-called Dog Days (dies canicularis). f. 9r: A computistical table. f. 9v: Instructions for the computus, beginning: ‘Si vis scire quot concurrentes in anno sunt’. f. 10r: Instructions for calculating the age of the moon, beginning: ‘Hec sunt .vii.tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

78. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 14–45

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 14–45
Title:
Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam Homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de Cursus; Fortunatianus, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 14r-27r: An anonymous sermon on the Works of Mercy, beginning ‘Isaias propheta dicit ille vobis qui jungitis agrum ad agrum’; excerpt from a sermon ('Venus, A Man') against the observance of pagan customs (see Levison, England and the Continent (1946), pp. 303-04 (as ‘C’)); partly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

79. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 46–108

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 46–108
Title:
Bede the Venerable, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (excerpt); Translatio et Miracula Sancti Cuthberti (imperfect); Excerpta de Vita et Miraculis Sancti Cuthberti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 46r-47r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672/3, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), Book 4.32 [healing miracle of St Cuthbert]. ff. 47r-85v: Translatio et Miracula Sancti Cuthberti (Translation and Miracles of St Cuthbert), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II

80. Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C V, ff 3–161
Title:
Marianus Scottus, Chronicon, with a continuation to AD 1087; computistical tables and texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-161r: Marianus Scottus (b. 1028, d. 1082/3), Chronicon (Chronicle) with a continuation to 1087 AD including computistical tables (ff. 160v-161r). [ff. 4r, 159v are blank] Decoration: Several large initials in red; numerous small initials in red, sometimes with simple ornamen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C V

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