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1. Cotton MS Claudius D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius D III
Title:
Bede, Martyrology; bilingual Rule of St Benedict; obituary calendar of Wintney Priory
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: an index to the Rule of St Benedict (ff. 52r-140v), A-H, written in the hand of Robert Cotton’s librarian, Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), with an additional list of contents (f. 2r). f. 3r: a rejected leaf from a martyrology, written in Latin. f. 3v: Simon of Waverl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1220-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

3. Cotton MS Otho A XII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A XII/1
Title:
Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 16th-century transcript of the Vita Ælfredi regis, a Life of Alfred the Great (r. 848/849-899) written by his advisor Asser (d. c. 909), Bishop of Sherborne.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Cotton MS Tiberius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C III
Title:
Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Leaf of a noted liturgical book (imperfect) ff. 4r-91r: Honorius of Autun (b. c. 1080, d. c. 1155), Gemma animae sive De divinis officiis (Gem of the Soul or on Divine Services), an allegorical treatise on the liturgy, beginning: 'Incipit liber de divinis officiis venerabi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
Title:
A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil). ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1125-1225
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
Title:
Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XV
Title:
Pontifical, with medieval endleaves; a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, Sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, Homilia xx); Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori; Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis (excerpts, imperfect), with medieval endleaves including further excerpts from De ecclesiasticis officiis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Cotton MS Vitellius F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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