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61. Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 129–209

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 129–209
Title:
Adrevald of Fleury, Aduentus et Exceptio Sancti Benedicti et Scholastice; Adrevald of Fleury, Miracula Sancti Benedicti, book I (imperfect); Thierry of Fleury (Amorbach), Translatio Corporis Sancti Benedicti, §ii; Adrevald of Fleury, Miracula Sancti Benedicti, book i (continued); Aimoin of Fleury, Miracula Sancti Benedicti; Vita Sancte Marie Magdalene; Translatio Sancte Marie Magdalene; arms of Robert Steward, prior of Ely (1522–1539), with the date 1531; Passio Sancte Katerine Virginis; Vision ...
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various hagiographical texts. All of these folios were copied in the 1st half of the 12th century, apart from Translatio Sancte Marie Magdalene (Translation of St Mary Magdalene), copied in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century and the account of the vision of the monk of Eynsham,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VIII

62. Cotton Ch II 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch II 2
Title:
Confirmation of Henry I to Norwich Cathedral Priory of a grant by Ralph, son of Godric, of land at Newton
Scope & Content:
Confirmation of King Henry I of England (r. 1100-1135) to Norwich Cathedral Priory of a grant by Ralph, son of Godric, of land at Newton (Norfolk) with privileges there. Witnesses: Queen Matilda (1080-1118), William Bigod (d. 1120), Roger, bishop of Salisbury (1102-1139), and Ralph son of Godric. En...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1102-1118
Extent:
1 leaf

63. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 216–223

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 216–223
Title:
Annalistic chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 216r-223r: An annalistic chronicle including years with Roman numerals, ending in 1141. Much of the space remains unfilled; some has been filled by a later cursive hand (13th century). Decoration: Roman numerals in red. Letters highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

64. Harley MS 3222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3222
Title:
De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito; Epistola de monachorum officiis; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito, beginning: 'Cum multa et diversa sint avium genera quadam naturali pulcritudine'. ff. 17r-42r: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, chapters 1-68, extracts ff. 42v-44r: Untitled letter ('Epistola de monachorum officiis'), beginning: 'Primum o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

65. Lansdowne MS 383

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: former pastedown from a 13th century text. ff. 2r-179v: Psalter, preceded by a calendar, Easter table, and cycle of full-page miniatures, and followed by Canticles, a Litany, Collects, and various longer prayers. Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 12v, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

66. Harley MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 59
Title:
Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to Heg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

67. Harley MS 628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 628
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (Exodus), Ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

68. Harley MS 3094

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3094
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fidei; Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti ex opusculis S. Gregorii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fidei (On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith); imperfect at the beginning. f. 57r: A single verse: 'Omnia qui libras diademata celica vibras'. ff. 58r-127v: Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti ex opusculis S. Greg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3861
Title:
Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Dialogus contra Judaeos (Dialogue against the Jews), written by the Jewish physician and astronomer Petrus Alphonsi (b. 1062 d. 1140), born Moses Sephardi, who converted to Christianity in 1106. The polemic takes the form of an imagined debate between his forme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 4124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4124
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Life of Bede; Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. ff. 82v-87v: Life of Bede with a preface ('Vita Beati Bede presbiteri et Girwensis monachi'). ff. 87v-89v: Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow ('Vita Sanctorum abbatem monasterii in Wiramutha & Giruum'); imperfect at t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

71. Harley MS 5327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5327
Title:
Martyrdom of Margaret of Antioch with prayers to various saints
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-34v: Passion of Margaret of Antioch, entitled: 'Incipit Passio Beate Margarate', and the incipit: 'Post resurrectionem domini nostri Ihesu Christi et gloriosam ascensionem eius in celum ad deum patrem ominpotentem'. ff. 34v-398v: Prayers to St Margaret of Antioch, the Virgin Mary, S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

72. 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, d. 882),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1125-1225
Extent:
A parchment codex

73. Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Fragments XXXII/4
Title:
Burnt fragments from Cotton MS Otho D VIII
Scope & Content:
These eight fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Otho D VIII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. The composite manuscript is made up of six parts that were produced at separate times in England between the 2nd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
8 fragments

74. Add Ch 20394

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 20394
Title:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey of land in Colesbourne
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey [Oxfordshire] of all her land and that of her father in Colesbourne [Gloucestershire], which Helias of Colesbourne had granted them there. Endorsed: in a late 12th-century hand, ‘Calesburn / Matildis de Watervill / de t[er]ra q[uam] Elyas iniam tenuit’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

75. Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 61–90

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 61–90
Title:
'Aethicus Ister', Cosmographia (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 61r-90r: 'Aethicus Ister' and Pseudo-Jerome (translator), Cosmographia, imperfect at the beginning and end: the text ends with Aethicus Ister’s alphabet. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 90v: Latin notes, added in the (?) 15th century. [f. 90v is blank]. Decoration: No deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

76. Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 152–203

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B III, ff 152–203
Title:
Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 152r–203v: Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect). Decoration: Medium initials in red and green, sometimes with arabesque motifs. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius B III

77. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 179–213

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

78. Add Ch 19573

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 19573
Title:
Grant by Adeliza of Louvain, widowed Queen of England, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), widowed Queen of England and second wife of Henry I (r. 1100-1135), grants lands and a church in her manor of Stanton, Oxfordshire, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of the King, buried in the abbey. Witnessed by Hermann the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1135 and 1151
Extent:
1 leaf

79. Cotton Ch XI 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XI 36
Title:
Chirograph between Christina of Markyate, prioress of Markyate Priory, and William of Arden of Hamton, relating to land in Deddington and Kinwalsey
Scope & Content:
Chirograph between Christina [of Markyate, c. 1096-1155x1166], prioress of Markyate Priory [Bedfordshire], and William of Arden of Hamton. The priory grants William all of its land in Deddington [Oxfordshire] and Kinwalsey [Warwickshire], which Jordan of Stlingeleia held of the priory; dated to betw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1145-1166
Extent:
1 leaf

80. Harley Ch 50 F 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 50 F 32
Title:
Confirmation by Rohais, countess of Lincoln, of a grant by Ralph son of Gilbert to Kirkstead Abbey of land in Scampton
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Rohais, countess of Lincoln and wife of Gilbert de Gant [c. 1120-1156], earl of Lincoln, of a grant by Ralph son of Gilbert to Kirkstead Abbey [Lincolnshire], of land in Scampton [Lincolnshire], which had been given to Rohais in dowry. Addressed to Robert [de Chesney, r. 1148-1166], ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1149-1156
Extent:
1 leaf

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