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11. Cotton MS Otho A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

12. Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 8–173

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 8–173
Title:
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; Passio Sanct...
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains a Passionary or Legendary, containing the lives of saints for feasts in the period of February–March. Contents: ff. 8r-12r: Passio Sancti Ignatii (The Martyrdom of St Ignatius) [Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 4256]. ff. 12r-26v: Vita Sancte Brigid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho D VIII

13. 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

15. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, ff 1–173

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, ff 1–173
Title:
Alcuin, Epistolae and various other letters
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a series of letters copied in early 11th century, possibly at Canterbury. They were damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731 and are illegible in some parts. The bulk of the manuscript contains around 126 letters of Alcuin (ff. 1-144v). Further letters by various authors...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

16. Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 2–11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 2–11
Title:
Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar of Saints. ff. 8r-8v: Computistical tables (Dominical Letters). ff. 9r-10r: A Lunar calendar with prognostics, followed by solar and lunar tables. f. 10v: Instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle. The manuscript c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B III

17. Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/1
Title:
Liber Pontificalis (Pontifical of Glasgow)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was formerly bound together with the Coronation Book of Charles V of France, numbered ff. 35-80, now Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2. The folio numbering of this part (ff. 3-34, 81-197) is that of the composite volume, bound together by Cotton in the 17th century as Cotton MS Tiberiu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

18. Cotton MS Tiberius C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C II
Title:
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a decorated copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735). Sometimes known as the 'Tiberius Bede', it was made in the south of England in late 8th or early 9th century. In the 9th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

19. 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

20. 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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