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

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 109–116
Title:: Cyprian of Antioch, Confessio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 109r-116v: Cyprian of Antioch (fl. 300), Confessio (Confession), beginning: ‘Quicumque in Christi misterus proficius meis intendite lacrimis’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red and brown. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 117–170
Title:: Pseudo-Basil, Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Pseudo-Methodius, De Initio et Fine Saeculi; Alexander of Stainsby, Constitutiones; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 117r-123v: Pseudo-Basil, Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem (Admonition to a Spiritual Son), beginning: ‘Audi fili admonitionem patris tui et inclina aurem tuam’. ff. 124r-138v: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Synonyma (Synonyms), preceded by a prologue (f. 124r), beginning: ‘In subseq...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 171–178
Title:: Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 171r-178v: Invectivum Contra Regem Iohannem (The Barons’ Insult against King John), beginning: ‘Mater cum omnibus'. Decoration: Numerous small large initials in red and blue, some with pen-flourishing. Numerous large initials in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 179–213
Title:: Reginald of Canterbury, Vita S. Malchi; Carmina
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 179r-213v: Reginald of Canterbury (d. c. 1112), Vita Sancti Malchi (Life of St Malchus), preceded by a prologue (f. 179r) and followed by Carmina (Poems), beginning: ‘Prelia gesturus’. Decoration: Numerous large initials in red, green and blue. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, f 3
Title:: Computistical memoranda
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 3r: Computistical memoranda. [f. 3v is blank]. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 87–107
Title:: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii; computistical tables; untitled computistical treatise with hand diagrams
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 87r-97v: Master Cunestabulus, Compotus Constabularii (1175), with an introduction on f. 87r, beginning: ‘Sepe [auctorum] volumina qui de compoto vel principaliter’; the treatise on ff. 87r-97v, beginning: 'Compotus est scientia commensurandi tempora mediis motibus solis et lunae'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 109–135
Title:: Serlo of Bayeux, poems; Godfrey of Winchester, Liber Proverbiorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae; miscellany of poems by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbod of Rennes, Ausonius, and Godfrey of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 109r-114r: Serlo of Bayeux (d. 1104), canon of the cathedral chapter of Bayeux, collection of short poems [including: Versus Serlonis Parisiacensis ad Muriel Sanctimonialem Virginem [Muriel, sister of Odo (d. 1097), Bishop of Bayeux]; Ad Virginem Deo Dicatam Versus; Incipiunt Vers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XII, ff 136–185
Title:: Bartholomew of Exeter, Penitential; The Lord's Prayer in Old English; Exemplum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 136r-185r: Bartholomew (d. 1184), Bishop of Exeter, Penitential, with a note in the lower margin of f. 184v that extends to f. 185r. f. 184v: The Lord’s Prayer, in Old English, beginning: ‘Fader ure be giert on heofena’. f. 185r: A Latin exemplum concerning a bishop with the ab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII, ff 17-166
Title:: Osbert of Clare, Epistolae; anonymous poems about the Passion and the Virgin Mary; Latin proverbs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 17v-164v: Osbert of Clare (d. after 1139), Epistolae (Letters), with an interpolation containing two treatises that have been attributed to Eadmer [Edmer] of Canterbury (b. c. 1060, d. in or after 1126), De Conceptione Sancte Marie (On the Conception of the Virgin Mary); the rubr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 5–10
Title:: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:: These folios contain a fragment of the Compendium in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitier (b. c. 1130, d. 1205), ending with a diagram of Jesus, his apostles, Paul and Barnabas. These folios were copied in the late 12th or early 13th century. Chapter titles pertaining to Macer's De viribus her...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

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