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2. 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:
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1 volume
3. 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:
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1 volume
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
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 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
9. 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:
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1 volume