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2. Cotton MS Julius A VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius A VI
- Title:
- A calendar, computistical texts and tables, Expositio Hymnorum, canticles and poems
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains two discrete parts, which were joined together in the medieval period. One part (ff. 2r–17v), copied in the first half of the 11th century, includes a calendar and computistical material. The second part (ff. 18r–80v) contains an early version of the Expositio Hymnorum (...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
3. 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
4. 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
5. Cotton MS Domitian A I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A I
- Title:
- Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Computistical tables; a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Bede, De die iudicii; a Latin colophon of three hexameters, a recipe in Old English and a list of books; Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of...
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains: ff. 2r-55v: Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Comp...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- mid-10th century- mid-16th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
6. 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
7. 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
8. Cotton MS Vespasian B XXV
- 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
