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11. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII, ff 38–171

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII, ff 38–171
Title:
Collection of canon law texts, including the Collectio Dacheriana; canons of the council of Trosly, 909; Isidore Mercator (Pseudo-Isidore of Seville), Epistula ad Leudefredum Episcopum; Isidore Mercator, Collectio Canonum; Quadripartitus; St Gregory the Great, Libellus Responsionum and Registrum (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, De Coniugiis Adulterinis, book ii; and Fulbert of Chartres, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a collection of canon law, possibly copied in the region that is now France in the 2nd half of the 12th century. Contents: ff. 38r-39v: Modus Tenendi Synodos in Anglia Primaevis Temporibus, including prayers for a synod beginning 'Adsumus sancte spiritus adsumus peccati q...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII

12. Cotton MS Julius D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius D III
Title:
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

13. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 132-157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 132-157
Title:
Córus bretha neimhedh
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-157v: Córus bretha neimhedh (Judgments of Privileged Classes’) (imperfect), written by the scribe Matha O Luinín. Decoration: Several large initials with interlace and zoomorphic decoration in black and red ink. Numerous small initials in black with red highlighting.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish, Old
Date Range:
1571
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

14. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 85–215

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 85–215
Title:
Rentals of Peterborough Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 85r-215v: Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough, the first of which is dated 1393.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

15. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 224–225

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 224–225
Title:
Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 224r-225r: A rental of Nailsbourne and Holway (f. 224r) followed by several memoranda. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

16. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

17. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
Title:
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

18. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 174–177
Title:
St Æthelwold, Regularis concordia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 174r-177v: Regularis Concordia, probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates. The rest of the manuscript is in Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff. 158-198. The text seems to have been dismembered by Robert Cotton. Using wormholes and an early modern...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

19. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174
Title:
Gospel of St John; A charter of Duke William II of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 174r: a fragment from a Gospel of St John copied in the middle of the 10th century. f. 174v: a charter of William II, duke of Normandy (b. 1035, d. 1087), later King William I of England (r. 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, dated between 1063 and 1066 and copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century-2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

20. Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203
Title:
A Germano-Roman Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The main part of this Pontifical was written by two German scribes in the mid-11th century. Thirteenth English scribes have added materials on blank spaces and additional leaves in the second half of the 11th century according to Wilcox, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2000) and Morgan, The Production ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius C I

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