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161. Cotton MS Nero A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A VII
Title:
Lanfranc, Epistolae; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; Bretha Nemed toísech
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made out of three parts of different origins, written at different times. The first part (ff. 1-112) was produced in England, probably at Rochester, or Normandy in the last quarter of the 11th century and contains the Epistolae (Letters) of Lanfranc (b. 1005 , d. 108...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1075-c 1571
Extent:

A parchment codex

162. Cotton MS Nero C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C V
Title:
Marianus Scottus, Chronicon; computistical tables and texts; Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana; a bull of Pope Gregory X addressed to the bishops of London and Ely
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. 162r-285v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (English History). ff. 282r-283r: a bull of Pope Gregory X (1272-1276) a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century - 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

163. Cotton MS Nero C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII
Title:
William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect); An Easter-table including Annals of Thorney Abbey; Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough; an annalistic chronicle; Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali. ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from Christ Church, Canterbury, imperfect. ff. 80r-84v: An Easter-table including the annals of Thorney Abbey. ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

164. Cotton MS Otho A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VI
Title:
Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; fragment of an account of a pilgrimage to Edward the Confessor's shrine
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts, bound together in the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and verse. These folios were copied in the mid-10th century. ff. 130r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

1 volume

165. Cotton MS Otho B II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B II
Title:
Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 10th or early 11th century was written in Old English, most likely by six scribes that were working in South-East England, perhaps London. The manuscript contains the Regula Pastoralis (Rule of Pastoral Care) by Pope Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

166. Cotton MS Otho C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C V
Title:
Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (part of the 'The Otho-Corpus Gospels') (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex contains part of an Insular Gospel-book which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r–64v: The Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (imperfect). The Gospels of St Luke and St John are contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B and possibly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

167. Cotton MS Otho D VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho D VIII
Title:
Calendar; Passional (February–March), comprising: Passio Sancti Ignatii; Vita Sancte Brigide Virginis; Passio Sancti Blasii Episcopi; Passio Sancti Triphonis Martyris; Passio Sancte Agathe Virginis et Martyris; Alcuin, Vita Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Haiminus of Saint-Vaast, Miracula Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Baudemundus, Vita Sancti Amandi Traiectensis Episcopi; Vita Sancti Ansberti episcopi; Vita Sancte Austroberte Virginis; Vita Sancte Euphrasie Virginis; Passio Sancti Valentini Martyris; Pa...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains six parts (ff. 2-7; ff. 8-173; ff. 174-233; ff. 234-254; f. 255; ff. 256-269) that were produced at separate times in England. The largest part of the manuscript (ff. 8-173) contains a Passionary or Legendary (featuring the lives of saints for liturgical read...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century - 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

168. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

169. Cotton MS Tiberius A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III
Title:
Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

170. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
Title:
A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a fragment of a Gospel of St John and a charter of Duke William II of Normandy; Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect); Richard Rolle, Super apocalypsim, Richard Rolle, Super mulierem fortem, Officium de sancto Ricardo heremita and Vita et miracula sancti Ricardi heremite
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four originally separate items, now bound together. Contents: ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and letters by various authors in the late 10th century, copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 11th century. f. 174r: A fragment of the Gospel of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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