Archive Reference (shelfmark): Cotton MS / Place: Canterbury, England - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV
Title:: Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium; Priscian, De Situ Orbis; Pseudo-Dares, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Pseudo-Jerome, De Mobilitate Mentis Humanae; Prophetia Sybillae; Pseudo-Ausonius, Sententiae Septem Sapientum; (?) Segardus junior of St Omer, De Miseria Hominis; Roger of Caen, De Contemptu Mundi (excerpt); Hildebert of Lavardin, De Mysterio Missae (excerpts); De Tribus Mortibus; Pseudo-Nennius, Historia Brittonum; Pseudo-Bede, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; De Septem Miraculis ...
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript of historical, theological and prophetic texts was owned and possibly produced at the Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury (Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 36). The exemplar of this manuscript was a manuscript, extant in two pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 1–52
Title:: Nigel Witeker, Versus; An anonymous poem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-51r: Nigel Witeker (d. after 1206) [also known as Nigel of Longchamps], Versus (Poems). f. 52r: An anonymous poem, beginning ‘Vitam claudit hominum paucitas dierum, nec est inter’. [ff. 1r, 51v, 52v are blank]. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red, blue or green, som...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1175-1215
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85
Title:: Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:: These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

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