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1. Cotton MS Claudius B II

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Cotton MS Claudius B II
Title:
Alan of Tewkesbury, Collectio Epistolarum Sancti Thome Cantuariensis; John of Salisbury, Life of St Thomas Becket with Alan of Tewkesbury's prologue
Scope & Content:
Alan of Tewkesbury (d. 1202) compiled a collection of St Thomas Becket's letters from earlier collections than John of Salisbury's collection. This manuscript is the earliest extant version of Alan of Tewkesbury’s collection. It contains a number of emendations, additions and corrections indicat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Claudius E I

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Cotton MS Claudius E I
Title:
Theological tracts, including Anselm of Canterbury's treatises, Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum; Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce; Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum; Liber Esdrae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-12v: St Augustine, De Genesi Contra Manicheos (On the Genesis, against Manicheans). ff. 12v-26r: Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum (On the works of the six days). ff. 26r-33v; 146r-147r: Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce (On the six words of God on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Faustina A IX

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Cotton MS Faustina A IX
Title:
Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes. f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...' ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Æl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Julius D III

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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

5. Cotton MS Otho B II

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Cotton MS Otho B II
Title:
Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 10th or early 11th century was written in Old English, most likely by six scribes that were working in South-East England, perhaps London. The manuscript contains the Regula Pastoralis (Rule of Pastoral Care) by Pope Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

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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

7. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

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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

8. Cotton MS Tiberius C III

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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

9. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII

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Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

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Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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