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1. Cotton MS Claudius E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E V
Title:
Notitia Provinciarum; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales; excerpts from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Pseudo-Gregory the Great, Decreta; Cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury; Ralph d'Escures, Letter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Notitia Regionum et Provinciarum (Names of Regions and Provinces), beginning: 'Incipiunt Nomina .XI. regionum continentium infra se provincias CXIII'. ff. 2v-231v: Pseudo-Isidore (Isidore Mercator), Decretales (Decretals), preceded by a preface (ff. 2v-4r), beginning: 'In ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. 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

3. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177
Title:
St Æthelwold, Regularis concordia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 174r-177v: Regularis Concordia, probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates. The rest of the manuscript is in Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff. 158-198. The text seems to have been dismembered by Robert Cotton. Using wormholes and an early modern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

4. Cotton MS Titus A XXVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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