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1. Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130
Title:
Ælfric, Life of St Martin (imperfect); Ælfric, Life of St Thomas; Life of St Mildred (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English hagiographical works copied in the mid-11th century. Contents: ff. 93r–111v, 125r–130v: Ælfric (b. 955, d. 1010), Life of St Martin (imperfect). ff. 111v–121v: Ælfric, Life of St Thomas. ff.121v–124v: Life of St Mildred (imperfect). Decoration: Initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd to 3rd quarter of 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A XIV

2. Cotton MS Faustina A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A IX
Title:
Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes. f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...' ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Æl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Otho B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho B X
Title:
Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
Title:
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

5. 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

6. Harley MS 8-9

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 8-9
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar and Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary
Scope & Content:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar of Ælfric of Eynsham, copied from the manuscript in Cambridge University, followed by an Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary. Marginal comments by Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650) and Franciscus Junius (1591-1677). Overall title page at the beginning of each volume. Contents: Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

2 volumes

7. Harley MS 6523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6523
Title:
Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. MS Facsimile 228

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Facsimile 228
Title:
Scope & Content:
ANGLO-SAXON VOCABULARY. Excerptiones de Prisciano (Institutiones Grammaticae), with Anglo-Saxon and Latin marginal glossaries agreeing to some extent with the Vocabulary of Ælfric. One hundred rotographs of the imperfect MS. at Antwerp (Plantin- Moretus Museum, MS. Plantinus 32), 11th cent., of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921
Extent:
1 item